It also happens on single click (possibly to make changing the text size easy), and you can also highlight by dragging and it’ll work, but I still like to double click to highlight.

  • Severed_Fate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Mouse users have the luxury of dragging and selecting the texts without much effort so I don’t think it’s that much of an issue

    • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I often do the double click and drag to select by word like OP does, but double tapping a touch screen is a common gesture to zoom in. I would be annoyed too.

      • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Double tap to select a word is a thing on mobile too, works in most input fields, it annoyed me it didn’t work in jerboa app though, I use it definitely more than I’d use double tap to zoom