Please stop disabling zoom

Post by iamsaitam » Fri, May 06, 2022, 3:02 PM UTC

chunkyks wrote: post #300

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #14

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The reason this is done is to get rid of extra latency when processing user input. I guess detecting zoom gestures needs some time to distinguish them from normal clicks?

Presuming you are correct: * Some number of people are sensitive to latency * Some people are unable to read my website You're gambling that there are more people who would walk away due to latency, than there are who would walk away due to being unable to interact with your site at all. Personally I suspect that to be a poor tradeoff.

Post by blippage » Fri, May 06, 2022, 9:00 PM UTC

kingaillas wrote: post #200

blippage wrote: post #141

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Yep. Just write in HTML, and the browser will render everything for you. It's almost as if the browser treated HTML as if, I dunno, it was some kind of markup language, you know, with hypertext, and stuff, and could automatically render it. /s I remember back in the late 90's, and we decided to create a static website for internal use on a project. Everything was supposed to be quick and simple. We weren't after anyt…

>We used Microsoft's whatever-it-was-called at the time for writing webpages. Frontpage, I'm going to bet. :) I was an early user of Frontpage, shortly after Vermeer released it. A few months later, it was bought by Microsoft. Looks like Frontpage was absorbed and discontinued ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage ). It was handy but I was just messing around with a very simple personal website and most…

Post by tomtom1337 » Sat, May 07, 2022, 6:03 AM UTC

kevincox wrote: post #32

hallway_monitor wrote: post #4

Yes it is silly. The article actually ends with some useful tips: As a user, you can force allow zooming: In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website” In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”

Unfortunately this also disables it on sites where it makes sense. For example I have a simple tool to pick a random person or split people into groups https://playerone.kevincox.ca/ Without zoom disabled 5 people putting their fingers on a screen looks a lot like a pinch gesture. Disabling the default event handlers only works some of the time. This is a common problem with the web, we can't have nice things because…

Post by hedora » Sun, May 08, 2022, 1:14 AM UTC

account42 wrote: post #283

hedora wrote: post #207

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Being left handed is a mild version of this. I think it cultivates a healthy mindset though: At an early age, you learn that all assymetric tools were designed by idiots, so by kindergarten, you're already questioning everything. I suspect this is why lefties are drastically overrepresented in leadership positions, NASA, etc.

> At an early age, you learn that all assymetric tools were designed by idiots Then you have learned the wrong lession. Assymetric tools might not be inclusive, but they are generally designed that way because it brings some kind of advantage.

Post by err4nt » Thu, May 19, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #295

err4nt wrote: post #77

It should be fairly straightforward (1 line of JavaScript required to actually get the job done) to make a user-script, or even a browser extension that obliterates any offending ` ` tag like this. Something like: document.querySelectorAll('meta[name="viewport"][content*="user-scalable=no"]').forEach(tag => tag.remove()) And if you wanted to get really fancy, you could use window.setInterval or a Mutation Observer to…

Wouldn't this remove the meta tag entirely and thus completely disable responsive rendering on mobile browsers, reverting to emulating a larger viewport.