536778 - N900: No possibility to zoom if double tap doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 478038

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

Description

[Uwe Kaminski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091215 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla 5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091225 - Firefox/3.6b6pre Fennec/1.0b6pre

Normally parts of websites are zoomed in if you double tap on an area within the website. Unfortunately this doesn't work for every website in every situation. The should be the possibility to do it in an other way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open fennec in a N900
2. Go to this page: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3762
3.Try to zoom to the comments listed there using a double tap
Actual Results:  
The content gets smaller because the browser zoomes _out_ and not in.

Expected Results:  
The browser zooms in and the content could be read on a device with a small screen like the N900 is one.

Please keep in mind that there is no clear suggestion how to use the hardware volume level buttons of the N900: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6347

I personally prefer to have them for regulating the volume level all the time (e.g. if a youtube video playse very noisefull I want to level doen it with the keys). Nokia provides the possibility to zoom into a page using making a circle on the touchscreen using your finger as described here: http://maemo.nokia.com/features/maemo-browser/gestures/ (see spinning zoom). I would prefer a solution like that.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We added a secondary zoom method in bug 478038. I think gestures will be a separate bug altogether.