Monday, August 20th, 2007
Wot no magnifying glass?
<p>We have heard this a couple of times now, so thought that we should post it as a quick tip.Why does the magnifying glass not show in my app?
It turns out that if you set user-scalable=0 in the meta tag, the magnifying glass doesn't show for input type="text" fields. It does still work in textarea's.
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />
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Well, I have no idea what you’re talking about…
I’m with Mike on this one. What the hell is this about?
The post is tagged iPhone, so I would guess that this is about an iphone feature.
I think he is talking about the 2008 presidential election.
“I think he is talking about the 2008 presidential election.”
Well, I’m with Jordan ^^
When typing in an input or textarea field on an iPhone the user can press and hold their finger over a spot in the text to display a magnifying glass to better allow you to select the insertion point for making corrections. This tip just goes to help trouble shoot why your app may be failing to show the helpful UI element to iPhone users.
Could have said that then. Confused me!