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Apparently as part of the "desktop class" browser experience in iPad OS, Safari lost its ability to double-tap to zoom. This is a feature I use on basically eve
by tolmasky 7y ago
Apparently as part of the "desktop class" browser experience in iPad OS, Safari lost its ability to double-tap to zoom. This is a feature I use on basically every single webpage, including when I am browsing on an actual desktop computer. Chrome's lack of this feature kept me on desktop Safari for ages. I can't believe they've taken it out. It significantly deteriorates my browsing experiencing. And for what? To add more text selection gestures or something? I already find it annoying that I randomly select text as I browse a website on iOS, I don't want important features being dumped in favor of more of that.
Edit: Upon further inspection, it may just be horribly buggy? It seems to sometimes attempt to zoom out on double tap (despite being at 100%), which means somewhere the code is still trying to work...
- swinglock 7y agoIndeed. I reported this but it wasn't fixed. Very disappointed as I use this all the time. If you pinch zoom slightly and then double touch, it works on some pages, including this page, but it's off center. On others not at all. On others it works as it should.
- Conlectus 7y agoAs I understand, tap-to-zoom adds a minimum latency to every click on a page since the browser needs to wait to see if its a double tap. This makes some buttons etc. feel laggy.
- fragmede 7y agoFwiw Chrome on OS X supports the zoom mode you are talking about. (I'm not talking about ctrl-+ text resizing zoom.) On a mighty/apple mouse, it's a triple tap gesture iirc.
- tolmasky 7y agoYes, it wasn’t clear from my post, but once Chrome got this feature I switched.