Because iPhone / smartphones users are thumb pointer users. Again, most of them.
Le 10 oct. 2010 à 14:17, RobG <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > On Oct 10, 9:53 pm, Remi Grumeau <[email protected]> wrote: >> Doesn't work on my iPhone 4 neither. >> Beeing able to zoom in the contact list would just be useless to me... > > Fine, but just because you don't want to do it doesn't mean no one > does. > >> I discovered that you can actually scroll in an iframe on iPhone using two >> finger scrolling. Pretty handy sometimes, but I'm pretty sure less than 5% >> of iPhone users know that. > > Yes, I learned that some time ago (18 months?). > >> You can do it yes, but nobody does since it's not user friendly to do so. > > But "someone" (me) does. If iframes were widely used, users would > quickly learn to use them (but users don't because iframes aren't used > for various reasons). As I sit here typing on my MacBook, I realise I > use two finger scrolling all the time. And three finger swipes for > forward and backward navigation. > > How the hell did I learn that if it's so damn hard? I'm using Google > Groups and scrolling the iframe using two fingers. Gasp! Oh, but it's > a laptop - sorry. I forgot that iPhone users are far more inept at > learning to use different interfaces. > >> Same for zooming in a contact list, nobody would do it. > > Read the thread - *I* want to do it, and I'm sure there are many > others. > > >> Same logic applies for a webapp. Keep it simple, obvious, quick > > So don't disable zooming! I just don't understand why developers don't > want to let users zoom. It is utterly inconsequential to the design of > a page layout. Just let users do it if they want. Has anyone ever had > a complaint from a user because zooming a page made their leg fall > off? Or the sky fall? I can see a Pythonesque sketch now... the Black > Knight screams "come on you chicken, come back and let me zoom the > screen!". > > Do you want to disable zooming for laptop and desktop users too? > Fortunately you can't. I don't see the blogosphere swamped with > laments about how zooming is destroying application usability for > other devices, so why on earth disable it for iPhone? > > Don't tell me - let me guess. Because you can. :-( > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
