Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:45:16 UTC
From OTRS: Broser: Safari Mobile Operating System: iOS5 (5.0) Special settings: Accessibility features enabled for iOS (voiceover off, zoom on, reverse screen colours off) Text being looked at: Any page on en.m.wikipedia.org The markup on the mobile versions of Wikipedia includes the following in the head: <meta name = "viewport" content = "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" /> The effect of this on iOS 5 Safari is it is now impossible to pinch to zoom the page when viewing a page on the mobile wikipedia (which is where Safari is directed by default). This has only been an issue since the launch of iOS 5, I didn't have any trouble with previous versions of iOS. I can only assume that up until now Safari would ignore the viewport metatag, or at least the restrictions on zooming. As a visually impaired user, I depend on the ability of Safari to zoom web pages heavily. Whilst it's true that iOS also provides a system-wide screen zoom with a 3 finger tap gesture, it is far from ideal in use (it makes scrolling around an app difficult, and if the app itself also suppors scrolling or swiping then things can get confused very easily). Please look into removing this tag, or at least relaxin the restrictions on the way the page can be viewed. Regards, Gordon McVey
The viewport no longer is locked so closing this. I'm not sure on which revision this was fixed but you can see here [1] that the viewport no longer sets user-scalable=0 [1] https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/MobileFrontend/ApplicationTemplate.php?view=markup&pathrev=106128#l46
*** Bug 31987 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
