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Allow pinch-to-zoom on webpages that want to prohibit it

Added by Soren Stoutner almost 3 years ago. Updated 11 months ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
4.x
Start date:
11/23/2021
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Description

If a website sets `maximum-scale=1.0` on the viewport, WebView will follow those instructions and prevent pinch-to-zoom.

https://designyoutrust.com/2021/11/beautiful-colorized-photos-of-helsinki-finland-in-the-1930s/

Some browsers, like Bromite and Chromium ignore or overwrite this setting. It should be possible to change this behavior with Privacy WebView.

More information at:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27236676/why-does-pinch-to-zoom-not-work-in-my-android-webview/47236804

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