[phforms]

Years ago, someone demonstrated an improved mobile text editing system called "Eloquent" [1] and I wish this would be the default today.

However, my biggest issue with mobile text selection is accidental scrolling or scrolling too fast/far while dragging on the screen to select longer text parts. This is especially annoying in landscape mode when there is just a tiny gap between the visible text and the touch keyboard. I don’t know how to solve this, but it just makes the text editing process feel incredibly insecure/slippy and annoying for me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9YPm0EghvU

[IshKebab]

That looks so much better. The hierarchical popup menu is soooo annoying. It's not even consistent about what gets relegated to the overflow!

In case it isn't clear to people, that research was actually done by Google. It's a shame the researchers didn't have the political clout to ship it.

I guess one issue with it might be the "press harder" bit. That isn't a thing anywhere else in the Android world at all and I expect hardware has pretty poor support for it.