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Vlad changed the title to Pinch/zoom getures not forwarded to browser .

    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)

      PS: zooming gesture acts in a similar behaviour with the default pdf viewer in Orion. So it's not specific to adobe's pdf viewer.

        orionlover changed the title to Touchpad zoom gesture always zooms the whole webpage instead of zooming pdf files .
          Merged 3 posts from Touchpad zoom gesture always zooms the whole webpage instead of zooming pdf files.
            a month later

            Could there be some temporary solution while Apple/WebKit deliberates on fixing this or the Orion team figures out a way around this? I find this to be a key gesture on websites such as Google Maps which are rather painful to use without this (so much so that I just end up opening a different browser).

            Perhaps giving users the option to disable pinch-to-zoom on a site by site basis be a temporary workaround? I personally don't make use of the gesture at all (and normally use ⌘+ or ⌘- for zooming in/out). But this would allow me to disable the gesture for Google Maps, Figma, Miro, etc. and actually make them usable on Orion.

              7 days later

              I'm a designer by trade so this is a particularly tough issue to work around

              For those unaware, the same zoom behavior can be achieved by ⌘+scroll. Hopefully this gets native support soon!

                2 months later

                As others have said, this is a particularly dissapointing issue. It makes Orion unusable as my daily driver (and I'm very ready to switch to it).

                Hopefully the WebKit team will listen but seeing as this reported issue goes back to January 2022, it seems to not be important to them.

                  Keep making your voice heard, WebKit team is usually repsonsive.

                    a month later

                    What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
                    Hi, when using finger pinching in figma (figma.com) to zoon in/out the gesture is not recognized properly, the page zooms in itself instead of its content.

                    What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
                    expected it to work properly

                    What version of Orion are you running?
                    0.99.125

                    • Vlad replied to this.
                      Merged 1 post from Can't use zoom via finger pinching in Figma.
                        2 months later

                        This is annoying. I've left a comment on Apple's bugzilla.

                        As a workaround for Miro, I'm using command+two-finger-scroll up and down, which also zooms. It's not as ergonomic as pinch-zoom, but it'll do for now.

                        a month later

                        My tip for other people struggling with this – it might not work for every use case, but for me it's fine: I wanted to use Penpot and this issue makes it impossible in Orion. What I did was open it in Safari and use the new Share > Add to dock feature to encapsulate Penpot as an app. I can use it as if it's a desktop app with the pinch to zoom working properly, and keep using Orion as main driver for actual web browsing.

                          9 days later

                          Any progress on this? It seems like the Webkit team has abandoned the issue or just has no plans to fix it. They've gone silent.

                          Maybe there's a different way to catch their attention?

                            12 days later

                            SInce SigmaOS shipped its own webkit engine, they can supports webextension while supporting the forwarding. Is there a chance Orion can find a way to implement this feature like what they does?