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Why does it zoom the wrong way around? Scrolling up means "zoom in" not "zoom out".

baw-bag 2y ago
That makes sense to me I think! In things going back as far as command and conquer, mousewheel up zooms in, and mousewheel down zooms out.
- eviks 2y ago
  But here wheel up zooms out!
  - Retr0id 2y ago
    Wheel does nothing at all for me in Firefox, I have to drag the bar.
    - inquirerGeneral 2y ago
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- lloeki 2y ago
  There was no zoom in Command & Conquer (1995) :p
derefr 2y ago
I dunno, it works just fine with my intuition — which is that you're not zooming as such; rather, by swiping up / scrolling the page down, you're moving a camera "forward" / "deeper in", toward the stars at the centermost part of the cube. The UI then reacts by re-framing (zooming) to capture and center in the view frustum, the volume of space that's between you and that centermost point. I think early versions of Google Earth (predating pinch-to-zoom) worked this way, too? In that scrolling "down" meant descending from space "down" to Earth — and thus zooming in.
- andersa 2y ago
  If you go on Google Maps today, it works correctly - scrolling up zooms in.
  - rixed 2y ago
    There is no reason other than conventions to call this choice the "proper" one though, is it?
    - Thorrez 2y ago
      Scrolling the wheel up makes my view of a webpage go up. Scrolling the wheel up makes the part of the wheel I'm touching go forward (toward my computer screen). It thus makes sense by analogy with my first sentence that scrolling up would make the view go forward. Zooming in is similar to making the view go forward.
      - WrongAssumption 2y ago
        > Scrolling the wheel up makes my view of a webpage go up. That's not universal though.
        Thorrez 2y ago
        For people with the alternate configuration, having making the scroll wheel move down make the content zoom in makes sense. I have scroll wheel up mean scroll up, but 100k stars has backwards scrolling mechanisms for me. So for me, the 100k stars is inconsistent with my system settings.
      - OJFord 2y ago
        Surely 'going forward' would be scrolling down a webpage? So by that thinking it would make sense for scrolling down to be zooming in. You could also see it like pulling the thing closer towards you. (Very difficult to unlearn though, I'm not in any hurry for zoom-in to be anything other than scroll-'up'!)
dimgl 2y ago
Yeah I had this same problem. Could be because of my experience playing space sims.
gembeMx 2y ago
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ghusbands 2y ago
It also gets pinch and spread gestures back to front, so it seems someone just got a sign wrong somewhere.

That makes sense to me I think! In things going back as far as command and conquer, mousewheel up zooms in, and mousewheel down zooms out.

eviks 2y ago
But here wheel up zooms out!
- Retr0id 2y ago
  Wheel does nothing at all for me in Firefox, I have to drag the bar.
  - inquirerGeneral 2y ago
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lloeki 2y ago
There was no zoom in Command & Conquer (1995) :p

derefr 2y ago

I dunno, it works just fine with my intuition — which is that you're not zooming as such; rather, by swiping up / scrolling the page down, you're moving a camera "forward" / "deeper in", toward the stars at the centermost part of the cube. The UI then reacts by re-framing (zooming) to capture and center in the view frustum, the volume of space that's between you and that centermost point. I think early versions of Google Earth (predating pinch-to-zoom) worked this way, too? In that scrolling "down" meant descending from space "down" to Earth — and thus zooming in.

andersa 2y ago
If you go on Google Maps today, it works correctly - scrolling up zooms in.
- rixed 2y ago
  There is no reason other than conventions to call this choice the "proper" one though, is it?
  - Thorrez 2y ago
    Scrolling the wheel up makes my view of a webpage go up. Scrolling the wheel up makes the part of the wheel I'm touching go forward (toward my computer screen). It thus makes sense by analogy with my first sentence that scrolling up would make the view go forward. Zooming in is similar to making the view go forward.
    - WrongAssumption 2y ago
      > Scrolling the wheel up makes my view of a webpage go up. That's not universal though.
      - Thorrez 2y ago
        For people with the alternate configuration, having making the scroll wheel move down make the content zoom in makes sense. I have scroll wheel up mean scroll up, but 100k stars has backwards scrolling mechanisms for me. So for me, the 100k stars is inconsistent with my system settings.
    - OJFord 2y ago
      Surely 'going forward' would be scrolling down a webpage? So by that thinking it would make sense for scrolling down to be zooming in. You could also see it like pulling the thing closer towards you. (Very difficult to unlearn though, I'm not in any hurry for zoom-in to be anything other than scroll-'up'!)

dimgl 2y ago

Yeah I had this same problem. Could be because of my experience playing space sims.

gembeMx 2y ago

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ghusbands 2y ago

It also gets pinch and spread gestures back to front, so it seems someone just got a sign wrong somewhere.