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by Alex3917 3736 days ago
Unfortunately as far as I know the text selection API is still broken on mobile Safari. At least as of a few weeks ago the JS events associated with force touch seem to randomly wipe out the text selection, so even if you can now theoretically copy stuff to the clipboard it's largely irrelevant if users can't actually select text in the first place.
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om2 3736 days ago
Can you file a bug with a specific example or two? http://bugs.webkit.org/
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Alex3917 3736 days ago
I think my cofounder already did, I'll check.

The basic issue we were encountering is that when selecting text via force touching and then dragging the selection, the text selection object was empty. (Though you can still hit Copy in the Safari UI.)

There wasn't any issue when selecting text via regular press or long press.

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om2 3736 days ago
If you throw me a bug number (here or privately) I'll take a look.
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Alex3917 3735 days ago
OK the bug number is 25465034. Thanks!
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agopaul 3735 days ago
That sucks. But (Desktop) Chrome/webkit selection has been partly broken too for a few years now.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66630

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=346613

I've been dealing with this stuff for the last week.

Edit: added webkit reference

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