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.

    • Solinus 🌿@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      more like “we forgot to add text size options and we need to release it in 2 days” and the interim dev just slapped together a solution.

    • Severed_Fate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      10 months 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·
        10 months 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·
          10 months 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