On iOS, the text selection gesture is treated as a swipe to navigate to the next or previous page

[phuongduyphan]

On iOS, when the book is in paginated flow, trying to drag the text selection handle to highlight a sentence is not possible. The system often misinterprets this as a swipe gesture, causing the page to turn instead of letting me select text. It's working fine on Android. Any suggestions for fixing this?

[chrox]

I cannot reproduce this in Readest on iOS, so probably this is not a problem in foliate-js. Adding this meta in the html header might help:

<meta name='viewport' content='minimum-scale=1, initial-scale=1, width=device-width, shrink-to-fit=no, user-scalable=no, viewport-fit=cover'
/>

[FeralFox]

I have the same issue on Android (Boox Nova).
When I do select a text in the upper 2-3 lines of a page, and touch the little handle to extend the selection, it immediately navigates back to the first page of the chapter, selecting all text inbetween. Sometimes it gets stuck when I let go the handle early and then I have two half pages displayed.
I aborted almost every function execution in paginator.js when a text is selected (goTo, scrollBy, touchStart, touchMove, turnPage etc.). Still this selection "scrolling" is happening. Is there something else that might change the pages?

[johnfactotum]

@FeralFox https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40889650

Edit: and #84, I think.

[FeralFox]

Thank you very much for the hint!

I could add a workaround in paginator.js: onTouchStart will store the current scroll position and this position will be injected to the scroll event. Actually I wanted to stop propagation of the scroll event, but computer said no ¯(ツ)/¯

For reference
FeralFox/foxtales@f02c558