Does Chrome provide an API to get/set a page's zoom level?
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Ziyuan Yao
May 4, 2012, 6:40:16 PM5/4/12
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I know I can use document.body.style.zoom="150%" to set it, but this
approach has a problem with Facebook (try it yourself; when you scroll
down your Facebook timeline, the right-side Chat pane will jump to the
middle of the screen...).
So I wonder if an extension can directly get/set the browser's zoom
level for a tab (exactly the same setting on the Wrench menu).
approach has a problem with Facebook (try it yourself; when you scroll
down your Facebook timeline, the right-side Chat pane will jump to the
middle of the screen...).
So I wonder if an extension can directly get/set the browser's zoom
level for a tab (exactly the same setting on the Wrench menu).
Ziyuan Yao
May 5, 2012, 1:28:58 AM5/5/12
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document.body.style.zoom="150%" works poorly with Facebook, Gmail and
Google Reader, enough for me to abandon this approach.
I also tried to simulate a Ctrl+<+> keyboard event to trigger Chrome's
own page zoom-in, to no avail so far, because there seems to be a bug
in WebKit/Chrome that prevents you from making such an event.
Google Reader, enough for me to abandon this approach.
I also tried to simulate a Ctrl+<+> keyboard event to trigger Chrome's
own page zoom-in, to no avail so far, because there seems to be a bug
in WebKit/Chrome that prevents you from making such an event.
PhistucK
May 5, 2012, 3:11:11 AM5/5/12
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Star crbug.com/30583 for updates (or help by contribuiting an implementation yourself, in C++. I think no one is working on this anymore).
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Ziyuan Yao
May 5, 2012, 3:47:30 AM5/5/12
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That bug asks for a per-tab zoom API, not an API that directly
controls Chrome's current, per-domain zoom features. So I filed my own
bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126353
Currently I have two solutions to work around the problem:
1. Educate users to use manual zooming:
https://sites.google.com/site/phoneticallyintuitiveenglish/become-a-pie-user-now/download-pie-transformer
2. Try resizing text only, via a css style like "text-size: 150%".
On May 5, 3:11 pm, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Star crbug.com/30583 for updates (or help by contribuiting an
> implementation yourself, in C++. I think no one is working on this anymore).
>
> ☆*PhistucK*
controls Chrome's current, per-domain zoom features. So I filed my own
bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=126353
Currently I have two solutions to work around the problem:
1. Educate users to use manual zooming:
https://sites.google.com/site/phoneticallyintuitiveenglish/become-a-pie-user-now/download-pie-transformer
2. Try resizing text only, via a css style like "text-size: 150%".
On May 5, 3:11 pm, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Star crbug.com/30583 for updates (or help by contribuiting an
> implementation yourself, in C++. I think no one is working on this anymore).
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> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Ziyuan Yao <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > document.body.style.zoom="150%" works poorly with Facebook, Gmail and
> > Google Reader, enough for me to abandon this approach.
>
> > I also tried to simulate a Ctrl+<+> keyboard event to trigger Chrome's
> > own page zoom-in, to no avail so far, because there seems to be a bug
> > in WebKit/Chrome that prevents you from making such an event.
>
> > On May 5, 6:40 am, Ziyuan Yao <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I know I can use document.body.style.zoom="150%" to set it, but this
> > > approach has a problem with Facebook (try it yourself; when you scroll
> > > down your Facebook timeline, the right-side Chat pane will jump to the
> > > middle of the screen...).
>
> > > So I wonder if an extension can directly get/set the browser's zoom
> > > level for a tab (exactly the same setting on the Wrench menu).
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> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Ziyuan Yao <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > document.body.style.zoom="150%" works poorly with Facebook, Gmail and
> > Google Reader, enough for me to abandon this approach.
>
> > I also tried to simulate a Ctrl+<+> keyboard event to trigger Chrome's
> > own page zoom-in, to no avail so far, because there seems to be a bug
> > in WebKit/Chrome that prevents you from making such an event.
>
> > On May 5, 6:40 am, Ziyuan Yao <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I know I can use document.body.style.zoom="150%" to set it, but this
> > > approach has a problem with Facebook (try it yourself; when you scroll
> > > down your Facebook timeline, the right-side Chat pane will jump to the
> > > middle of the screen...).
>
> > > So I wonder if an extension can directly get/set the browser's zoom
> > > level for a tab (exactly the same setting on the Wrench menu).
>
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