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Faterson · 09-25-2013, 06:50 PM

I'd say that text selection is one of the greatest advantages of Android compared to iOS. It works 100% smoothly in Moon+ Reader, as opposed to the nightmare that text selection is in Marvin/iOS, due to Apple's WebKit "paragraph snapping" glitch/pseudo-feature. See GitHub #34.

In Moon+ Reader Pro, selecting text works in the way preferred by many users: simply tap any word and drag your finger across the screen in any direction -- the text will automatically become highlighted. No need to use the selection "lollypops"!

There are also no issues with selecting text across paragraph boundaries, and when you come to the bottom of the screen, Moon+ employs a ridiculously sensible solution for the "highlight across screen boundaries" issue: it starts scrolling vertically, until you let go with your finger, finishing the highlight!

So, in this respect at least, Android crushes iOS.

Below, some more fun with background textures in Moon+ Pro. I promise, these are the last background screenshots I'll be posting here -- and the ones below are some of my custom backgrounds I have kept in a special folder for inclusion in Marvin as soon as that becomes possible.

09-25-2013, 06:50 PM	#19
Faterson pokrývač škridiel Posts: 1,525 Karma: 3300000 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Device: 3iPad, SamsungNote & Tabs, 2OnyxBoox, Huawei 8″, PocketBook	I'd say that text selection is one of the greatest advantages of Android compared to iOS. It works 100% smoothly in Moon+ Reader, as opposed to the nightmare that text selection is in Marvin/iOS, due to Apple's WebKit "paragraph snapping" glitch/pseudo-feature. See GitHub #34. In Moon+ Reader Pro, selecting text works in the way preferred by many users: simply tap any word and drag your finger across the screen in any direction -- the text will automatically become highlighted. No need to use the selection "lollypops"! There are also no issues with selecting text across paragraph boundaries, and when you come to the bottom of the screen, Moon+ employs a ridiculously sensible solution for the "highlight across screen boundaries" issue: it starts scrolling vertically, until you let go with your finger, finishing the highlight! So, in this respect at least, Android crushes iOS. Below, some more fun with background textures in Moon+ Pro. I promise, these are the last background screenshots I'll be posting here -- and the ones below are some of my custom backgrounds I have kept in a special folder for inclusion in Marvin as soon as that becomes possible.