Can a frontend developer explain to me about the disabled two-finger zoom on this page? Is my mental model that zoom is between me and my mobile browser, not something that should be disable able, just hopelessly naive these days? Or is the platform not doing this, and the browser is?
I just want to zoom in on the picture of 3m-wide Garden of Earthly Delights...
You'd expect touch-gesture zoom to still work under pixel scaling though. You'd expect to just see a downsampled image up close, plus normal-looking text up close, right?
If the viewport meta tag includes user-scalable=no, then it won't scale on mobile. Personally I don't like that setting much, since it is bad for a11y.
It does also prevent accidental zooms when users intend to scroll, so maybe that's a use? Often times the meta viewport tag (which is quite arcane) is just copy-pasted without deep knowledge of what it does.
I just want to zoom in on the picture of 3m-wide Garden of Earthly Delights...