Isn't that a good thing? Text should be selectable and copyable by default, since that does not induce any harm whether the user do it or not, but the reverse is not true.
The number of times a Windows UI shows me an non-copyable error code is vastly greater than the number of times I wish I cannot select any text (which is zero).
I don't know about the Windows 10/11 UWP stuff, but in any good version of Windows you can hit control+c on any standard dialog to copy the error text and the text of all buttons to your clipboard.
It's a little annoying that you can't easily make subselections in dialogs, but that's been a core Windows UI design element going back to Windows 1.0.
It's a grossly underadvertised feature of Windows and I bet the people reimplementing the Windows UI for the third time in ten years don't know about it either.
On iPhones at least with latest OS, using built in OCR is supposed to be especially easy now. Maybe that has been exaggerated now, but if it is a one step thing, that could be better than being able to copy as copying stuff sometimes includes things you don’t want and can’t exclude.
Yeah. You can prevent that too with a CSS property, but again, it’s not the default; you have to have enough time and attention to detail to go out of your way and handle it
My favorite feature in recent iOS is that you can defeat that CSS property by taking a screenshot and letting the phone OCR the image, then copy paste from the result.
Disabling copy is abused by all sorts of apps. (Yelp street addresses are a prime offender.).
I’m not convinced allowing it to be disabled is a net positive.
It’s fairly essential for things like buttons and tabs that get tapped all the time and have mostly non-content text. But it does need to be used sparingly
This used to be the norm on older versions of Mac OS, and that was good. It would help enormously when writing blog posts (e.g. copy the descriptive text somewhere rather than transcribing it) or searching the web for the content of a en error message that popped up.
The number of times a Windows UI shows me an non-copyable error code is vastly greater than the number of times I wish I cannot select any text (which is zero).