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by bowlingx 3664 days ago
Finally they managed to remove the weird intelligent selection behavior in safari!!! (The one that unpredictable marks blocks or the whole website). Thank you apple :)

They also ignore any viewport meta data so you can always zoom. My Cordova app doesn't like this :( I hope it can be disabled for WKWebView programmatically

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> I hope it can be disabled for WKWebView programmatically

I'm hoping it can't - being unable to zoom a web page means it goes on the shit list because then I can't read it how I want to.

For websites this seems ok for me, but for apps that run inside wkwebview, I think there should be more control about this behavior. You can't zoom normal apps so this would make the Usebility properly worse or unexpected.
Oh, hmm, good point, I missed that subtlety. Yes, apps definitely should be able to prevent zooming.

(Purely from a personal perspective, I'd prefer that people who made web apps didn't because they're a much less good user experience.)

Interesting. Got any details on that?
The releasenotes mention at least the zooming in safari.
Gah; my app doesn't like it either! Gotta be a bug... :-(