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		brown9-2 on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation I am curious what the purpose of disabling zoom for a touchscreen device is - hard to see pictures on an iPhone you can't zoom in on.

younata on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

What he means is, on a mac when you use two-finger together in a swiping motion, it'll scroll whatever document the mouse is on.

The google stuff (eg maps) has it where if you do the two-finger swiping motion, instead of scrolling, it'll zoom. Which is incredibly annoying.

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