Pinch/zoom getures not forwarded to browser
A number of websites now use pinch gestures to zoom in on their canvas, e.g. Lucid, Miro. Those pinch gestures are interpreted by Orion as being page zoom in/out (or to show tab view), which makes using those websites much more difficult and can cause rendering problems (page partially zoomed in when it shouldn't).
If there was the ability to either:
a) turn pinch to zoom on/off as a global setting, or
b) turn pinch to zoom on/off on a domain level
this would completely negate those negatives. This is for Desktop, as I believe Mobile now has a feature that achieves the same outcome.
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Are there any updates on this?
This issue has a significant impact on many websites that are widely used in various workplaces, such as Figma, Miro, Mural and others. Could you please provide an update on this? What is the expected timeframe for a resolution?
It's been over a year since the initial ticket was raised.
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Hi,
I experience this issue, in figma and google maps too.
Regards
What I need is just the ability to disable the pinch to zoom default behaviour, which is to launch the tab switching UI. Once that's disabled, I can then use those tools as usual I believe. Vlad, could you consider a single check box to disable default tab switching gesture control?
Would disabling pinch out to tab overview be acceptable for everyone here?
I would be fine losing that behavior. I honestly only ever triggered it accidentally and never found it useful.
Thanks,
Wes
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I don’t think it will solve all issues, certainly not where apple does something bespoke etc (maps). But I believe it will help on websites that have more generic implementations and stop accidental pinches (a huge frustration of mine personally). I was having no issue with Miro, Lucid, or Figma (I think) when using browsers without this pinch to switch tab mechanic.
Personally I think the pinch to switch tab toggle is a good first step. If that solves x% of the problems that’s still an improvement for presumably little effort. I’d rather that now, than wait a year for something perfect.
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wes I mean, it would at least cover most of the cases, like maps, documents, google docs and so on.
Chrome does use this method, you could try like in google maps, pinching to zoom over and off a canvas.
More edge cases, that are maybe needs still to be found and specified in this thread, are probably gonna be covered with some extra fix
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[unknown] The issue is not with Orion, but in WebKit that Apple refuses to fix (after acknowledging it is their issue). Anyone interested should make their voice heard and ask (politely) for this to be fixed:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256157
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Steps to reproduce:
The mac touchpad zoom gesture zooms the whole webpage instead of the embedded file (pdf). This works perfectly fine in other chromium or webkit based browsers, so I guess this might be a bug? It can be reproduced with any websites using Adobe Acrobat's online reader.
Expected behavior:
Zoom gesture is expected to zoom in/out pdf rather than zooming the whole webpage.
Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion Version 0.99.124.3-beta (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1)
MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.4 build 22F66)