Re: Zoom use case

I don't think that zoom is a good solution for this particular use case.

Existing editors use scale to achieve what I believe you are describing
(unless your usecase does something that these editors can't).

For example:
Google Docs: renders using HTML, uses scale(X) to achieve document zooming.
Google Slides: renders using SVG, uses scale(X) transform(Y,Z) & SVG
viewporting to achieve document zooming.
iCloud Pages: renders using SVG, uses matrix scale(X).

zoom has a bunch of issues in how it works which makes it a bad property
for this usecase. For example if you have the following:
<div style="position: relative; zoom: 2;">
  <div style="position: relative;width: 100%;height: 100%;">
    <div style="background-color: red; position: absolute; top: 10px;
bottom: 10px; left: 10px; right: 10px;">
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
Increasing the zoom factor, decreases the size of the box. Which is
unintuitive. There are a bunch of quirks like this.

Ian


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:

> Then I don't think you read much of my original email.
>
>
> Brad Kemper
>
> > On May 28, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think CSS transforms are sufficient for your use case.
> >
> > Rob
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