478037 - allow zooming out to past the page edges so that controls are all visible

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Panning/Zooming, enhancement)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Attachment: zoom all the way out for conrols concept

This is more of a speculative idea, but an extension of the current swipe-past-the-page-edge UI would be to allow, somehow, a user to zoom out past the page edges so that all control areas are visible on the screen.  I've attached a mockup of what this would/could look like with the current UI.

Why do this?

- sometimes, when a user is zoomed far into the page to see something, it might be more convenient to pull all the way out, instantly, for controls than zooming to a page edge.  There's the added benefit of not losing the user's current position on the page - tapping on content to return him/her to the area of interest before the zoom-out

- this provides a way of accomplishing what's outlined in the last point without introducing new controls.  In other words, there's not another separate hovering toolbar, etc. -- the controls still sit around the page edge - this is just another way of getting to them

- we could start the user in this position on firstrun, and zoom him/her in, as a way of demonstrating where the controls are


Issue to be figured out:

How should this be invoked?  The double-tap zoom cycle should probably just return the user to full page zoom after they've zoomed in as much as possible.  Maybe use the alternate zoom mechanism to let the user zoom further out.  A hardware key press?  A special button or gesture?

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component