When you marquee select you are trying to get everything inside the marquee selection and ignore what's outside it, with Soft Groups it adds more.
I'm working on a website where there is a shadow underneath images and I've soft grouped the image and shadow together so the image itself exports as a JPG and the shadow as a PNG. When I try to marquee objects close to the Soft Group, I keep selecting the tiny shadow object and therefore the entire Soft Group. I keep expecting the Soft Group to be ignored in my selection.
I guess it's a minor annoyance, and it doesn't actually break anything on the page like some of the other stuff I've encountered.
My thoughts on it:For a single click on a Soft Group, sure, select the Soft Group.
Shift click on the Soft Group? Go ahead and add it to the selection you already have.
With a marquee selection that isn't around the entire Soft Group I think it shouldn't get selected.
You guys think the entire Soft Group should get selected for a partial marquee selection just because one object happens to be inside the marquee?
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