Being unable to select text out of a link is absolutely infuriating when you want to just copy a piece of it, either because it's a reference number or something, or you want to translate it. Mobile is nearly impossible, and desktop is also fiddly in many cases.

Often when translating it's easier to just OCR the area with the dictionary app, which is madness when it started as text.

At least in Firefox, holding down alt while selecting let's you do it within a link without triggering a click event.

TIL. Thank you!

Now I just have to remember this next time I need to select text within a link. :)

Wow. How could I not know but needed this since ages. Thank you!

Double click selects text. What to do with web app elements where people double click or rapidly click?

Double click selects text.

That is what it should do.

The user base of the application I develop is non-technical. Most of them double click or drag EVERYTHING. It ends up highlighting stuff that looks weird and now they are dragging and dropping things with a quarter of the screen highlighted in a different color and it just looks messy and obscures data behind the text on pages with visual diagrams.

A designer pointed this out and requested we disable highlighting on button text and draggable handles, and honestly it's a good idea and those problems are now fixed. The downside is that someone can no longer highlight the text on the draggable button that says "Instruction Node" and that's a totally fine tradeoff.

This seems fine to me. For example in inkscape if I drag on the File menu at the top (or double click), I can't start highlighting the "Fi" in the "File" menu label and I'm totally fine with that, same thing here.

Except when double click means "open", which it does in basically all the desktop OSes with default settings.