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I really hate webpages where things don't zoom consistently. Zoom should scale everything the same. Just like how zoom works in real life, or essentially any
by Enginerrrd 7y ago
I really hate webpages where things don't zoom consistently. Zoom should scale everything the same. Just like how zoom works in real life, or essentially any other context with optics, or bringing something closer to read it, or further away to see more of it.
If I'm zooming, I don't want your buttons and graphics to adapt themselves to be relatively bigger. That's godawful behavior that ruins the usefulness of zoom entirely. I'm perfectly capable of zooming back to click your buttons if I really want to. (In other news, the percentage of time I click these buttons is low, on the order of 1/200. They aren't as important to me as they are to you.)
Why is the web full of this behavior?!
- reificator 7y ago> Why is the web full of this behavior?! I believe the root cause is that zooming in and out triggers breakpoints, so the page thinks it's now on a phone instead of on a desktop.
- Enginerrrd 7y agoThat actually makes sense, and I was on a desktop at the time, although I often find it especially aggravating on a phone because it matters more when. There's less screen real estate to begin with.
- reificator 7y agoOn a phone, pinch to zoom typically doesn't act like resizing the window, so most sites should behave fine. Sites that don't behave when zooming on mobile are probably going out of their way to break things.
- shahahmed 7y agoI definitely feel this. I made a tradeoff decision to get the experience I wanted in the default view, but it screwed up what I expected the zoom to do (it's because i relied on the vw css element). I tried having a fully zoomed out version lower on the website - but I agree, it's an unfortunate experience. And wholly due to my laziness.