In case you’re not tired of iPhone musings: as I was playing with the two‐finger zooming in Safari, I remembered Dave Hyatt’s April 2006 blog post on high‐DPI web sites. Eerily prescient in hindsight, he argues that web developers should make sure their images can scale — in anticipation of high‐res displays (like, say, 160 dpi) and browsers that let the user zoom in (like, say, Safari). The timing of the post makes me wonder just what Hyatt knew and when he knew it.
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Note that Firefox can also let the user zoom in images using the Image Zoom extension
True. While we’re counting: IE has had the proprietary
zoomCSS property for a while, and IE7 actually does something useful with it (zooming the whole page instead of just increasing the font size).It’s entirely possible that as part of the resolution independent UI push in Leopard the higher-ups told the Webkit team to make sure that it was ready to go. For iPhone they probably didn’t need to know much more than “Make sure that it builds on ARM”. The less the Webkit team knew, the better since most of their code ends up as Open Source.
Opera has also been zooming content and images for a while.