Really dumb OmniWeb deficiency

[hazmat]

Anyone else find it really stupid that in the context menu for highlighted text in OmniWeb there is no "copy" (to clipboard) option? I find it very unintuitive, having to go back and forth unnecessarily between the keyboard and mouse.

[Alexandert]

I dont use OmniWeb but are you sure?? That would be toooooo stupid to be real!

[hazmat]

Originally posted by Alexandert
I dont use OmniWeb but are you sure?? That would be toooooo stupid to be real!

Positive. See attached capture. Come to think of it, it looks as if OmniWeb may be ignoring the highlighted text in the main browser windows all together.

[nkuvu]

I'm not at my computer right now (aka, I'm at work) so I can't check this -- Does OW copy the highlighted text with either the Edit menu or command-C? I know that OW works fine for recognizing control clicks on links, just wondering if it is missing the highlight altogether or it's just a problem with the context menu.

[lethe]

i may be totally wrong about this, but i can t think of any macos software that ever had that feature. i don t think it s part of the apple HI guidelines. can you get a contextual menu and copy text in any macos apps?

i always sort of thought that was a windows only feature.

i do know that OmniWeb is very strict about following apple s HI guidelines, so perhaps it s apple you should be complaining about, not omniweb

[lethe]

yep, i m wrong. TextEdit.app Mail.app do it. i didn t know OSX had that. i don t know why OmniWeb doesn t have it

[genghiscohen]

I'm at work myself (on a #$%^&* Dell), so I can't check this. But that image is showing the contextual menu for a web page, not for the highlighted text.
I know I definitely have copied & pasted text from OW. Don't remember if there was any special trick to doing it, though.

[lethe]

of course you can still copy and such. you have to use command-C though, which means taking your hands off the mouse. i have been using macos for so long, that i am totally used to this, and comfortable with it, but i could totally understand that this would be annoying to someone who migrated from windows.

correct me if i am wrong (again), but classic mac os didn t have this feature? i lost my OS9 disk a long time ago, so i haven t seen it in many months.