[dev] Can't select email subjects in dynamic view

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Nov 27 05:57:29 UTC 2012


Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> I would not be opposed to adding a horde-wide class (or at least  
>>> an IMP class) that delineated an HTML element allowed to initiate  
>>> a click-drag.
>>
>> I'll bite, what's wrong with drag-selecting UI elements?
>
> Say you accidentally drag-select across a mailbox name in the  
> sidebar.  You will create a large text selection element over  
> multiple UI elements.  It looks extremely tacky/amateurish (and some  
> browsers won't let you disable when doing something like click and  
> drag of an element, and that looks tacky/amateurish x10).

I guess, but it seems much worse to me to prevent expected  
functionality (copy/paste). I've tried to copy subject lines twice  
today alone.
-chuck


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