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Why do so many websites disable pinch-to-zoom for mobile users? This page is full of interesting close-up photos, but at least on my Android phone, I can't zoom
by qnleigh 1y ago
Why do so many websites disable pinch-to-zoom for mobile users? This page is full of interesting close-up photos, but at least on my Android phone, I can't zoom in to see any of the details. Who benefits from disabling this feature?
- cortesoft 1y agoI am able to pinch to zoom fine on my iPhone
- dicknuckle 1y agoThe issue seems to be with Chrome based browsers.
- __float 1y agoThe website explicitly disables it; they have a viewport meta tag with: initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no I think it's more likely Safari these days just ignores this, because of the very problem OP complained about.
- tyleo 1y agoYeah, I actually think Safari has the right behavior here. I use zoom features all the time on all my devices. I actually prefer pinch zoom than developers implementing accessibility features which often don’t test all hardware and get glitchy at certain zoom levels.
- kpw94 1y agoA workaround: Long press on image, "open image in a new tab"
- GuB-42 1y agoThat's something you can override in the accessibility options, both in Chrome and in Firefox. IMHO, it should be the default, I have never been in a situation where it caused a problem, but I have been in plenty of situations where it helped.
- showmexyz 1y agoThank you. This is one of those things that annoyed me so much sometimes I would just leave the site.
- QQ00 1y agoturning the desktop mode on in the browser always worked for me to bypass such limitations on the mobile browser. just tested it and the pinching and zooming works fine.
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