1005111 - No pinch to zoom the web page on mac

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688990

Description

[:garvan]

Platform: OS X 10.9

Safari, and some other built-by Apple applications (TextEdit) support pinching on the touchpad (or magic trackpad) to zoom the page larger or smaller. 

These apps appear to rasterize the view, smoothly zoom, and then use fractional font sizes to draw the final page to match exactly what the zoom preview looks like.

Chrome responds to pinch also, the pinch behaves like the shortcuts to increase/decrease font size.

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This is more or less covered by bug 944938 but we should probably keep them separate for now because that one may end up not covering this, or we may want to fix this differently in the short term.

Comment 2

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Even if we just implement a stepwise zoom like Chrome does, it would be better than what we have now (which is no pinch-zooming at all).

Comment 3

[Nathan Yee [:nyee]]

Bug 944938 has been fixed, but pinch-to-zoom functionality is still absent. This bug is possibly a duplicate of bug 688990. Garvan can you take a look into this?

Comment 4

[:garvan]

Indeed is a duplicate of bug 688990.