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A bug which only affected left-handed users – Terence Eden’s Blog (shkspr.mobi)
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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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.works 2 points 7 hours 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.