Articles Tagged zooming

No, not really.

My first guess was that this was intentionally not exposed in browsers because browsers intentionally don’t want us fighting it — or making well-intentioned but bad-outcome decisions based on that info. But I don’t see any evidence of that.

StackOverflow answers paint how weird cross-browser it can be. This script from 2013 works for me in Chrome, but not at all in Safari and reports incorrectly in Firefox. Even if that script worked, it relies on user … Read article “Can JavaScript Detect the Browser’s Zoom Level?”

Check out this nice image-zooming library by Desmond Ding. It’s fairly little, has no dependencies, and has all the modern stuff to make it easy to integrate into modern sites (you know, available on npm, and modulized). I tossed a demo up on CodePen for playing convenience:

See the Pen Zooming by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.… Read article “Zooming”