Is there any proposal to optimize the user experience issue where it's difficult to select a specific word within the text of a hyperlink?

[lovetingyuan]

I think many people may have this kind of problem and I wonder if it's the responsibility of browser vendors to solve it or if it should be pushed at the standardization level.

[smaug----]

Looks like browsers behave differently. Firefox on linux works reasonable well when using alt+mouse.
Chrome triggers download in some cases, in some other cases it doesn't. No idea about other OSes.
This seems mostly an UA issue, since I assume the behavior might depend on the operating system.

[lovetingyuan]

Looks like browsers behave differently. Firefox on linux works reasonable well when using alt+mouse. Chrome triggers download in some cases, in some other cases it doesn't. No idea about other OSes. This seems mostly an UA issue, since I assume the behavior might depend on the operating system.

Thank you for answer! I use macos, I can solve the problem by pressing option+mouse.