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Reading a recent changelog, one of the referenced forum thread sounded interesting, so I went to copy the link.

First, I automatically tried to double-click-and-drag, intuitively expecting it to select the whole word ('http') on the double click, and then expand it to the end of the word I let go over, but it never expanded the selection so I had to go back and carefully start dragging from the actual word beginning.

Then I went for right click -> copy, but did not get a menu popup, so had to reach over for ctrl-C, which does not have the visual confirmation of success that a disappearing context menu does, though thankfully it did copy.


Both of those are minor inconveniences at most, and could easily not be worth the development effort to correct. I just felt that it was worth pointing out the mismatch between the familiar set of common interactions provided by the OS and web browser I interact with daily, and those that have been implemented in-game. Especially with so few opportunities where entering text in-game is relevant.

you might be interested to know, that although all these features are lovely and useful, and make us lazy to be reliant on them... they're not standards.

Internet Explorer doesn't even highlight words on a double click, it's annoying.

But I agree, these would be useful feature additions, but low priority.

bobingabout wrote:Internet Explorer doesn't even highlight words on a double click, it's annoying.

What version of IE are you using?

It works for me.

Jap2.0 wrote:

bobingabout wrote:Internet Explorer doesn't even highlight words on a double click, it's annoying.

What version of IE are you using?

It works for me.

The one I'm talking about was the absolute latest of windows 7 at the time... it was in the message editing window specifically. currently using chrome though.

bobingabout wrote:

Jap2.0 wrote:

bobingabout wrote:Internet Explorer doesn't even highlight words on a double click, it's annoying.

What version of IE are you using?

It works for me.

The one I'm talking about was the absolute latest of windows 7 at the time... it was in the message editing window specifically. currently using chrome though.

Ah, I see what you mean.


(also, I finally figured out how to put those inline. Through the forum still doesn't accept .mp4 as a file extension so I have to go through the quality loss of imgur...)

I know I was right, I had experienced that issue.

Either way, these are QoL changes, so I am totally in agreement with the suggestion.