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Can a frontend developer explain to me about the disabled two-finger zoom on this page? Is my mental model that zoom is between me and my mobile browser, not so
by nohuck13 5y ago
Can a frontend developer explain to me about the disabled two-finger zoom on this page? Is my mental model that zoom is between me and my mobile browser, not something that should be disable able, just hopelessly naive these days? Or is the platform not doing this, and the browser is?
I just want to zoom in on the picture of 3m-wide Garden of Earthly Delights...
- pfooti 5y agoIt's just a mobile thing due to pixel scaling. In the overflow menu, of the browser bar, check the "desktop site" box and you can zoom in.
- nohuck13 5y agoYou'd expect touch-gesture zoom to still work under pixel scaling though. You'd expect to just see a downsampled image up close, plus normal-looking text up close, right? Here even the text doesn't zoom.
- pfooti 5y agoIf the viewport meta tag includes user-scalable=no, then it won't scale on mobile. Personally I don't like that setting much, since it is bad for a11y. It does also prevent accidental zooms when users intend to scroll, so maybe that's a use? Often times the meta viewport tag (which is quite arcane) is just copy-pasted without deep knowledge of what it does.
- shmde 5y agoTwo finger zoom is working fine for me. I am using Chrome on Android with the "Force enable zoom" setting enabled.
- jdironman 5y agoBehold, Two fingers.
- DangitBobby 5y agoIn FireFox it's under the accessibility options.
- cma 5y agoFacebook, an image sharing site, does this too on their mobile site version... why?