I’m right handed and still use my phone with left hand. Aren’t you all doing it that way?
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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I use my phone in both hands. However, my dominant hand can navigate the large phone screen by itself more easily. My fingers know how to push the back of the phone into my thumb for extra reach, instinctively like a sower knows when to apply tension to thread.
I at first was assuming this post was to be about natural selection and the reasons for the current prevalence of right handed people.
Like today's uneven distribution of blood types caused by different susceptibility to some diseases in former time, like e.g. the evolutionary advantage blood type 0 gives you against Malaria.
So I was initially very confused when the author started rambling about the design of his Wordpress blog instead... 😆
What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness? I'd rather think it's some obscure genetic placement mechanism, that one gets read earlier and overwrites the other in 90% of cases or something.
What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness?
That's exactly why I was initially so intrigued by the heading:
"What on earth could be the mechanism that a bug could have caused this??"
But then I realized we were talking about entirely different kinds of bugs... ;-)
So it was turning a scroll into a click, and only lefties tapped to scroll over that element? The article doesn't actually explain the bug.
I think it was pretty clear but I do have experience building touch UI. It's more that a button click was being detected with "touchStart" which made it so that when users accidentally start a scroll gesture with their finger on the button, it automatically triggered the button unintentionally. The proper way to do this would be to detect it with a touchEnd event.
I'm surprised to see that WordPress still use Trac, as I didn't realise that it's still being updated. I haven't seen it in the wild for a very long time. I used to use it for source control and bug tracking but that would have been maybe 15 years ago.
Thanks, I just thought I was clumsy. Now I can say it’s probably a combination of clumsy and screen/page design!