Bug 92741 – Add zoom to content support in WebKitGTK for touch devices

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Simon Schampijer]

As seen in many webkit based browsers (ipad browser safari, android browser, chrome) zoom to content is a good feature for small devices with touch support.

Just for reference, in the browsers that already support this feature the usage is as follows: double-tap zooms to content, double-tap in zoomed content zooms out.

This is implemented already in webkit-core [1], so it needs to be added in the API of webkit-gtk. It has been implemented for the QT API [2].

Upstream feature request for the Browser used in the Sugar learning platform [3].

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg03689.html
[2] http://www.svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/WEBKIT/search?revision=112669&showPaths=all&#11266925612953
[3] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12036

[Alice Mikhaylenko]

macOS also has this via a double 2-finger tap on touchpad. The problem though

The problem here isn't WebCore, the problem here is that double 2-finger tap is opening and closing context menu, and double 1-finger tap (both on touchpad and touchscreen) is selecting the current word, so you would have to compromise on something.

[Jan-Michael Brummer]

In this case i would propose to align with the typical Android/iphone design for touch gestures. We should talk to Carlos i guess.