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| // Original code from http://www.blog.highub.com/mobile-2/a-fix-for-iphone-viewport-scale-bug/ | |
| var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta'); | |
| var i; | |
| if (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) { | |
| for (i=0; i<metas.length; i++) { | |
| if (metas[i].name == "viewport") { | |
| metas[i].content = "width=device-width, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].addEventListener("gesturestart", gestureStart, false); | |
| } | |
| function gestureStart() { | |
| for (i=0; i<metas.length; i++) { | |
| if (metas[i].name == "viewport") { | |
| metas[i].content = "width=device-width, minimum-scale=0.25, maximum-scale=1.6"; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
| // Rewritten version | |
| // By @mathias, @cheeaun and @jdalton | |
| (function(doc) { | |
| var addEvent = 'addEventListener', | |
| type = 'gesturestart', | |
| qsa = 'querySelectorAll', | |
| scales = [1, 1], | |
| meta = qsa in doc ? doc[qsa]('meta[name=viewport]') : []; | |
| function fix() { | |
| meta.content = 'width=device-width,minimum-scale=' + scales[0] + ',maximum-scale=' + scales[1]; | |
| doc.removeEventListener(type, fix, true); | |
| } | |
| if ((meta = meta[meta.length - 1]) && addEvent in doc) { | |
| fix(); | |
| scales = [.25, 1.6]; | |
| doc[addEvent](type, fix, true); | |
| } | |
| }(document)); |
Works brilliantly, thank you !!! Very tight nice code too. Like art.
I agree with ibrent. Nice job.
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Tested and working on iPhone 3G with OS 3.1.2 of Safari
Any idea on how to modify this script to make it work when the initial scale has to be 0.5 instead of 1.0? — Please, any help is always welcome.
Hmm, could you not just pull in the min/max from the actual meta tags and only override them if not present?
That might be best for dumb designers like me.
This doesn't seem to fix the bug at all. The point of maximum scale is to lock the width to the width of the device. After zooming with this script, when changing orientation, it still has the problem of being too big.
Also, requiring two gestures seems clunky.
Any test on iOS 4.3.3?
Confirmed working on iPad 4.3.5 (8L1) and iPhone 4G 5.0.1
Confirmed NOT working on iPod 5.0
I think I got a better solution to this bug (just submitted to MBP for evaluation and maybe integration):
I face palmed
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]
You mean because of document.body? ;-)
This works great but I've noticed it is adversely affecting my href links.
I have my nav links set to width="100%". If I use my finger to scroll and a link is below my finger, it triggers the :hover state of the link (in this case a background color). I'm assuming it has to do with gesturestart. It happens in both the original script as well as in this improved one.
I've heard rumors that this is fixed in iOS6. Can someone confirm this?
Yes, it's fixed as of iOS6: http://adactio.com/journal/5802/
What about this CSS-only solution? http://stackoverflow.com/a/8727440/312681
@mihaipaun not as far as I can tell...
If that bug was fixed there should be some release information on it somewhere. I'd love to see a link on this to know if it truly is supposed to be fixed. I too have heard the rumors.
I read through what I could find on the iOS 6 release with no luck.
http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/ios-viewport-scaling
In order for the script to work and bypass the 2nd gesture minor tweaking like in orienatation change event set the max to 1.00099 instead of just 1.0
hi, i'm still in a learning process and really grateful to all sites like this one!
the code works fine with me. the only thing is that a tiny part of the page is being cut off from the sides. is there a way of preventing this or is it possibly a self-inflicted problem because i made my page 1000px wide?
i'd be very grateful to any help and ideas!
I appreciate this code, which has helped me as I've adapted my website to be more mobile friendly. I'm posting about an issue which just came to my attention, hoping for some advice. It seems that the bug fix doesn't work if a page includes dynamic text. I have two pages which implement the bug fix, although the script is external in a file named MaintainViewport.js. If you visit http://mauitradewinds.com/test/view.htm you will see a horizontally-scrolling image with a fixed text caption. The viewport bug fix works perfectly. But, at http://mauitradewinds.com/test/test.htm there is a fading caption below the scrolling image. The viewport bug is not fixed on this page, although it references the same javascript to correct that bug. If I remove the dynamic caption, the viewport bug also disappears. If there is a solution to this, I'd be grateful to see it.
}(document));? should be })(document);
@ericmuyser - you can write it either way. The latter is more common, but the former works as well.
You might want to update with additional meta params, for iOS 6+.
function fix() {
meta.content = 'width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=' + scales[1] + ', user-scalable=no, minimum-scale=' + scales[0];
doc.removeEventListener(type, fix, true);
}
hmm, still seems to create problems for me....
Is this fix still applicable to iOS or has Apple solved this issue?
Is this fix still applicable to iOS or has Apple solved this issue?
I also want to know...
I tested this code and its working well. thanks for sharing.
I don't think this works any more (iOS 10+) due to Apple now ignoring the scale meta tags
@jdalton’s rewrite was so good I ported most of his changes back to this gist for future reference.