On Oct 10, 7:33 am, anmldr <[email protected]> wrote: > All of my material is actually displayed within a native app in a > UIWebView. I do want to control the looks of the pages and the size > of the text. They are all textbooks and it just "works" right.
If it all works so well then no one will zoom anyway. But what about the 1 in 100 who wants to? Why can't they? If your app looks a little different when zoomed, who cares? Surely that's the user's issue. I can zoom on my MacBook using control+scroll up, there is no meta tag to disable that (thank goodness). I use it frequently for small fonts because often zooming just the fonts makes the page layout fall apart (another failure of many web sites). Do you want to disable that too? > We > will have to agree to disagree on the correctness of using zooming or > disallowing zooming in some circumstances. "Correctness"? You make it sound like there is some definitive answer - there isn't. The point is that zooming is available specifically so that users can see things on the screen better. The designer of the page has no idea of the individual requirements of each and every user, and therefore can't possibly know that the size of the fonts or images on the page is suitable for all of them. Removing functionality purely for the sake of aesthetics is a common anti-accessibility behaviour. > I have one app that is a calculator as a HTML page. We don't want > that to zoom because buttons would be off of the screen or would wrap > and look terrible. So, there are uses for it in my case. Maybe, but what do you care? It is the user that has chosen to zoom the screen. If that's how they want to use it, why not? I can zoom my MacBook screen for *any* application. -- Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
