I keep accidentally doing the pinch to zoom gesture while I am scrolling (two fingers) in Safari. In general the pinch to zoom gesture does not work well. I can't accurately control my zoom. I either zoom in way too much or zoom out way too much. There doesn't seem to be any way to zoom gradually.
Can I just disable this gesture while keeping other gestures enabled and keeping the zoom gesture enabled in other apps?
This is getting so annoying I am considering switching from Safari to another browser.
please apple i beg you to give us a way to disable this feature. i understand the screen zooming put keep text zooming regulated to the apple +- keys or just allow us to turn it off. as an avid track pad two finger scroller this gets activated all day long and very frustrating. For the love of god, please allow us to disable it
please apple i beg you to give us a way to disable this feature. i understand the screen zooming put keep text zooming regulated to the apple +- keys or just allow us to turn it off. as an avid track pad two finger scroller this gets activated all day long and very frustrating. For the love of god, please allow us to disable it
In most applications, the pinch open and close gesture usually zooms in and out of photographs or graphics, but in Safari, the gesture is equivalent to the menu options to increase or decrease the text size. I believe this is to conform with expected browser behavior.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work as "expected behavior" for me; I prefer my text to stay put. I also find that I very rarely (read: almost never) want to zoom in and out on a 15" screen (in contrast to my iPhone) because the screen is already large enough. Worst of all, this guesture is easy to trigger by accident but seems actually difficult to do on purpose, which means that setting things back to normal actually takes more effort! Ugh. I also agree with the original poster: the granularity for this guesture leaves a lot to be desired. I spend several seconds in accordion fashion trying to dial the zoom back to something near the original size. Aggravating in the extreme.
First things first, I agree that it can be too easy to activate. Perhaps the sensitivity needs to be adjusted or maybe the option of adding a modifier key would be helpful. But it you want the text to return to normal, just press the command key plus the zero key.
I understand and appreciate that it may not be to your preference, but it is conforming to standard browser behavior. The HTML or CSS code of a website specifies the text size for that specific website. Apple and all other browser developers provide you with the capability to override that specification with an increase or decrease text size function. The granularity of this function is dictated by standard HTML and CSS text sizes. Safari has included this capability since it was launched, which can be activated with the command key and the plus or minus keys. Safari, at least the desktop version, has never had a zoom function so it made sense to map the pinch gesture to increase or decrease text.
The pinch gesture is not a system-wide screen zoom gesture throughout Mac OS X. It is mapped to different commands for different applications. It is mapped to zoom when viewing graphics in an application like Preview or iPhoto because that makes sense. It is mapped to increase or decrease text size in Safari because that makes more sense in the context of a desktop browser. The browser paradigm is different than other applications and for good reasons.
If you want system-wide screen zoom, it is activated with a modifier key (control by default) and two-finger scroll, as configured in the Trackpad preferences. This has also been available via Universal Access for years, as mentioned by the other poster before me, but has now been mapped to the trackpad as well.
I also hate the pinch to zoom in Safari, it always decreases the font when I don't want it too, there should be some sort of way to disable it in a particular application if not all together. When someone figures our how to do this please post it.
The new Safari 4 beta has changed the behavior of this gesture. It is assigned to a new zoom feature that zooms the entire page rather than increasing the size of HTML text. This should resolve most of the complaints here, with the exception that the gesture is sometimes too easy to invoke.
That's where they SHOULD put the option to disable this "feature", but it is not where they did put it. I've been working with a Unibody Macbook for a week and this problem is very annoying.
I'm a new macbook owner and this feature I totally hate. I'm accidentally zooming a webpage in Safari and I wish there was a way to disable this feature.
