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sho_hn on March 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium

One thing I notice is that I can't select most of the text. I'd like HTML sites to do better than Flash in this regard -- conformance to established HTML behavior is supposed to be an advantage.

bzbarsky on March 17, 2011 [–]

This looks like a purposeful action by the page: it calls preventDefault on mousedown events for some reason. :(

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