994514 - enhancement request: better reflow on doubletap

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[gregrwm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:28.0) Gecko/28.0 Firefox/28.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20140224214718

Steps to reproduce:

zoom.



Expected results:

many times zooming without reflow is the Right Thing.  on the other hand, many times i want to follow a zoom with a reflow.

for starters, zoom should always work.  yes i mean mobile sites.  i get around it by requesting the desktop page.  why should i have to do that?

anyway, once i have just zoomed, if i then doubletap, it currently zooms again to fit the column on the screen.  admittedly i have found this useful at times.  but what would be far more useful, from my perspective, would be to presume i have just made the text a good size for reading, keep that zoom size, and reflow the text to fit the screen.

so to me it would make sense to never reflow when pinching, and do reflow on doubletap.  a second doubletap could then restore the original layout, and zoom to fit the column onto the screen, as currently happens for the first doubletap.  a third doubletap should toggle back again, undoing the second doubletap.

yes that omits the zoom-all-the-way-out feature of the current second doubletap.  pinch seems entirely adequate to me for that.

and please don't confuse my proposal here with the recently revoked reflow on doubletap which did not preserve the zoom size the user had just zoomed to.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is multiple bugs.

Always zoom. Not zooming when user-scalable is set to no and other methods are standards. If you wish to bypass that then there are extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/always-zoom/ or you can continue with your desktop site work around.


The second part has a lot of variable behavior that would be difficult to get right I suggest talking it over with the UI team either at https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev or #mobile on irc.mozilla.org