Comment #27 on issue 72 by michael....@gmail.com: Selecting entire lines instead of the actual text string on double click http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72
I realize that the default behavior in Windows is to select the space following a word upon double-clicking, but I'd argue that this doesn't make sense as the default behavior in Chrome, at least not all of the time. Most often in Chrome I'm viewing a page that's read-only. I am double-clicking a word because I want to copy it and paste it elsewhere, and the extra space requires me to do an extra keystroke (backspace) the vast majority of the time. Actually, even just now, as I was writing in this text area, I double-clicked a word because I wanted to replace it with another, and since it consumed the following space I had to do an extra keystroke (spacebar). [update: while finishing this message I did this several more times] I don't understand why it's the default behavior in Windows - it constantly throws me off, and for the life of me I don't remember it helping once. But not all Windows applications have this behavior. Perhaps I'm biased because I spent the majority of my time in Eclipse (boy, if it always selected the following space, I'd go crazy). That said, even if it is the behavior of Windows, that's not a reason in and of itself to have this behavior in Chrome. It's just plain annoying. You (Chromium developers) have already broken away from other Windows conventions - the look of the window, the lack of a File | Edit | etc. bar, and many others - so I hope you take a look back at this one and decide to do what makes Chrome easiest to use. If I'm wrong about what that is, oh well. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
