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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#42

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

On mobile, tapping the picture opens it in isolation, allowing you to zoom in on it.

It opens a smaller version in isolation that I still can't zoom

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#43

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

I do not know but I encountered this more often than not. Direct links to images are a rare occurrence in my experience. I usually just right click on the image, then click on "Open Image in New Tab" which will get me what I want. Off-topic but: was it not Google that tried to work around this so one could not do even this in the search results?

Google removed that functionality because of a settlement with Getty.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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post #42

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On mobile, tapping the picture opens it in isolation, allowing you to zoom in on it.

It opens a smaller version in isolation that I still can't zoom

For others having the same issue, the image can be found in the github repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wtfutil/wtf/master/images/...

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#46
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not know but I encountered this more often than not. Direct links to images are a rare occurrence in my experience. I usually just right click on the image, then click on "Open Image in New Tab" which will get me what I want. Off-topic but: was it not Google that tried to work around this so one could not do even this in the search results?

Google removed that functionality because of a settlement with Getty.

That is awful and fundamentally flawed. If it's on my device, I can save it.

Edit: Come to think of it, if it's on my device, it's already saved in some way, shape and form. Clearly nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue Google.

What Google should of done is offered to advertise that an image is available to purchase...

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#47

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

Same, Firefox on linux can't zoom the image. Right-click 'View Image' does provide a standard zoomable image, but why make me work to see if your product is of use/benefit to me?

I am on Linux on Firefox and I can zoom... Ctrl + scrollwheel. Or am I missing something?

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#48
post #37

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Zooming works fine here. Mobile Safari iPhone SE.

That's because Safari disregards this option, as it is hostile towards users.

The site does mess up inertial scrolling on iOS Safari though.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#49
post #39

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

I have no clue why people downvote you, as this is exactly the reason this page is not zoomable. In my humble opinion people doing stuff like this should be forcefully separated from the process of creating web sites.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

#50
post #39

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

It's my understanding that this HTML is (mis)used to reduce tap-delay on mobile devices:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6397748/whats-the-point-...

That's doesn't excuse it, of course.

I think it's boilerplate that ends up pasted into a lot of websites.

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