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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  1794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Endgame is not a very good movie

Highlight the text with your cursor.



thenewgreen  ·  1794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Mobile? On my phone. I highlight and nothing happens.

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oyster  ·  1793 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you copy and then paste in the notes app it shows the text. Not ideal, but it works.

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OftenBen  ·  1794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huh.

Works just fine in both Chrome and Brave on Android (Galaxy S9+)

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KapteinB  ·  1794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Long-click somewhere in the spoiler, and it will select a word and make it visible. Drag the edges of the selected area to cover all of it. Works in Firefox at least.

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Dala  ·  1794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Does not work in Firefox or Safari on iPhone XR. I don’t think these phones have long press or something.

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KapteinB  ·  1793 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Huh. On the one hand, I can understand why Apple would disable long-press entirely, as it provides a rather horribly user experience. But on the other hand, long-press allow a right-click equivalent, which is super useful.

Wait, don't iPhones have that force touch thing, where you click harder and something else happens? Try that.

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Dala  ·  1793 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The xR doesn’t have whatever that is. This is my first iPhone so I have no previous experience of whatever it used to do, but there are a couple of apps that have features that don’t work correctly with this phone because of it.

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