A bug which only affected left-handed users
shkspr.mobi
Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Look, you try writing an interesting bug report without sounding like a clanker, OK! I try to optimise my blog as much as possible. It may not look like much, but it has got it…
  • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    I’m right handed and still use my phone with left hand. Aren’t you all doing it that way?

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I use my phone in both hands. However, my dominant hand can navigate the large phone screen by itself more easily. My fingers know how to push the back of the phone into my thumb for extra reach, instinctively like a sower knows when to apply tension to thread.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I at first was assuming this post was to be about natural selection and the reasons for the current prevalence of right handed people.
    Like today’s uneven distribution of blood types caused by different susceptibility to some diseases in former time, like e.g. the evolutionary advantage blood type 0 gives you against Malaria.

    So I was initially very confused when the author started rambling about the design of his Wordpress blog instead… 😆

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness? I’d rather think it’s some obscure genetic placement mechanism, that one gets read earlier and overwrites the other in 90% of cases or something.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness?

        That’s exactly why I was initially so intrigued by the heading:
        “What on earth could be the mechanism that a bug could have caused this??”

        But then I realized we were talking about entirely different kinds of bugs… ;-)

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    So it was turning a scroll into a click, and only lefties tapped to scroll over that element? The article doesn’t actually explain the bug.

    • Pycorax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I think it was pretty clear but I do have experience building touch UI. It’s more that a button click was being detected with “touchStart” which made it so that when users accidentally start a scroll gesture with their finger on the button, it automatically triggered the button unintentionally. The proper way to do this would be to detect it with a touchEnd event.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I’m surprised to see that WordPress still use Trac, as I didn’t realise that it’s still being updated. I haven’t seen it in the wild for a very long time. I used to use it for source control and bug tracking but that would have been maybe 15 years ago.