I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.

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    When marking something to copy and paste. You start marking the text and drag to the right. If you drag too far to the right, your highlighting goes away and everything to the left of where you started becomes highlighted. Why would anybody ever want that behaviour? It is exactly the opposite of what you are trying to do.

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      Oh yeah. Or trying to highlight something including text further down, you want to scroll it a little bit and suddenly it accelerates and you highlighted the wohle page.

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        This is one of those things that came out of the gate sucking massively and nothing was ever done to improve it. We might be in our 60s some day still fumbling around trying to copy some text.

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      A variation of this that drives me nuts at work

      Trying to highlight part of a url it decides nope you getvall or nothing.

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        On mobile when you do finally highlight from the right part, but then it scrolls at either 18 pixels per minute or 1000 characters a second.

        Who the hell designed that, URLs are structured, you only ever want to copy between the slashes and url parameters.

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      I also hate this, but I wouldn’t call that an UI trend. It’s caused by the browser and it’s rather a bad UX I think.

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        The browser implements the text selection behaviour, but how infuriating it is depends on how convoluted your page construction is.

        On a simple page with no floats, overlaid elements, negative margins, absolute positioning, hidden stuff, and other css layout tomfoolery, it’s perfectly predictable. It’s only when designers do designer things does it start to break down.

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          floats, overlaid elements, negative margins, absolute positioning

          A lot of these techniques aren’t really used any more. We’re old lol. Modern web design uses CSS grid, or at least Flexbox. I haven’t seen a float or absolute positioning in years.

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            I know, but those techniques are more likely to cause selection weirdness than flexbox/etc, which is why I mention them specifically.