Hi everyone, I recently played with okular, a PDF-reader, and they do one thing Right, namely, the default mode is what they call Browse mode wherein by dragging the mouse (or your finger across the screen) it navigates around on the pdf page. You can, if you want, click a little icon to go into Select mode which will then translate drags into selection boxes for cut and paste.
This seems like the right thing to do. As it turns out, Chromium has an add-on called ChromeTouch which implements something like this, and rumor is there's something similar for Firefox. So this is more of a feature request for surf (a feature request I might even implement if I ever get time) and an invitation for chatter more generally on the topic. Peter -- sic dicit magister P Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/peterjh
