Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

There should be a way to zoom all content globally with no reflow. The main use case for this is a magnifier accessibility feature.

	Benoit Girard (:BenWa)
	Comment 1 • 11 years ago

As discussed in the gfx meeting we can do:

1) A post scale similar to win/osx magnifiers. This is very easy to do, would be fast and snappy BUT would be pixelated (or fuzzy).
2) We can wait for multi-apzc (bug 775452). This will let us zoom the entire app and pan around it. It will show a scaled zoom until the main thread performs a reflow+repaint in the engine but wont change the position of elements on the screen.

1) would only take a few days while 2) is months away from being ready for this application. I suggest 1) should be completed now to mitigate the risk and once the pre-reqs are solved we can do 2) and ship a major improvement a few months down the road.

	Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] Reporter
	Comment 2 • 11 years ago

(In reply to Benoit Girard (:BenWa) from comment #1)
> As discussed in the gfx meeting we can do:
> 
> 1) A post scale similar to win/osx magnifiers. This is very easy to do,
> would be fast and snappy BUT would be pixelated (or fuzzy).
> 2) We can wait for multi-apzc (bug 775452). This will let us zoom the entire
> app and pan around it. It will show a scaled zoom until the main thread
> performs a reflow+repaint in the engine but wont change the position of
> elements on the screen.
> 
> 1) would only take a few days while 2) is months away from being ready for
> this application. I suggest 1) should be completed now to mitigate the risk
> and once the pre-reqs are solved we can do 2) and ship a major improvement a
> few months down the road.

Yep, good plan. We could keep this bug for tracking, I'll open a new blocker for post scale zooming.

	Ivan Tsay (:ITsay)
	Comment 3 • 10 years ago

Per discussion among I, Sandip, and Milan, this feature is targeted in Firefox OS 2.1. Update the bug status accordingly.

	Sandip Kamat
	Comment 4 • 10 years ago

As UX may not be ready for 2.1, gfx is moving it to backlog. Adding Jaime to confirm her note in the G-doc.

	David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)
	Comment 5 • 10 years ago

Eitan, for the UX here, would it be as simple as switching in/out to/of a mode where pinch/zoom worked on the whole FFOS screen instead of just content?

	Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay] Reporter
	Comment 6 • 10 years ago

(In reply to David Bolter [:davidb] from comment #5)
> Eitan, for the UX here, would it be as simple as switching in/out to/of a
> mode where pinch/zoom worked on the whole FFOS screen instead of just
> content?

No, not really. The gestures would not be simple pinch/zoom. I suggested gestures in a wiki page[1]. For magnification to work in conjunction with the screen reader, and also not interfere with pinch zoomable wec content, it would need to be a different gesture.

1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/Mobile/GestureInterface

	Milan Sreckovic [:milan] (needinfo for best results)
	Comment 7 • 10 years ago

What happens with the "on screen keyboard" when we're magnified?  Is it also magnified, so we only see a portion of it?  Or is it still the same size, all keys are visible, etc.?

	jachen
	Comment 8 • 10 years ago

Yes, this is now GFX backlog so UX paused on this. If it comes into priority, let UX know.

	Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")
	Comment 9 • 9 years ago

(In reply to Milan Sreckovic [:milan] from comment #7)
> What happens with the "on screen keyboard" when we're magnified?  Is it also
> magnified, so we only see a portion of it?  Or is it still the same size,
> all keys are visible, etc.?

iOS for example has the zoomed area adjacent to the keyboard (no overlap). Only content part of the view is navigable through the lens and so the keyboard itself is not magnified. 

It probably makes more sense (to only zoom the content part of the view) because otherwise (with the magnified keyboard) the user will not be able to track well what is being typed.

ni? marco here to see what he thinks.

	Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)
	Comment 10 • 9 years ago

I agree. Users need to see what they type, but the keyboard is usually big enough so they can work it.

	BMO Automation
	Comment 11 • 6 years ago

Firefox OS is not being worked on