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Just Let Me Select Text (aartaka.me)
submitted 2 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev
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I found the https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ also good. Wondering what can auto-create the different formats for long form blog posts?

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a bookmarklet to enable text selection on any web page that tries to block it that way.

Here it is for your convenience. Bookmark it and give a try on the linked blog post:

javascript:document.styleSheets[0].insertRule("* { user-select:text !important }", 1);

Can't remember where I swiped that from. Probably some ancient StackOverflow thread.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

WTF‽ I’m a web dev for 5 years, 8 if you count university, and I’ve never heard about bookmarklets. Why would that even begin to work?

Man, this is so amazing!

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

Browsers have supported the javascript: scheme for a long time, so I guess it just abuses that.

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's just running some JavaScript code on the page

[–] bluespin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

We run one for our product and it's been teetering on the edge of extinction for a while. Google keeps saying they're going to kill them and going back on the decision