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Comment by thekenwheeler | Hacker News Reader

What do you mean pinch/zoom?

The page itself (not the slider), sets a fixed viewport, which means that a user cannot pinch/zoom the page on a tablet/phone.

Here is the code:

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=0">

Removing that little "user-scalable=0" should fix it, as being able to zoom in on a page is a nice feature, and shouldn't be disabled unless there is a really good reason.

Well that's not a plugin problem, thats a demo page problem. And I typically disable that when there is responsive/mobile formatting in place

You aren't getting this are you? The carousel doesn't have anything to do with pinch or zoom. If you put it on your site, boom , pinch and zoom your face off. I chose to disable pinch and zoom on MY demo website, because it is already formatted for mobile.

Makes sense - I should have looked more closely. I was checking it out on a tablet since that's where I'm most interested in these controls. I should mention that the swipe behavior of this one is nicer than most, and so I'll definitely be trying it out at some point. I might make a few modifications to better deal with phones, but that's about it.

I dunno, I want to see it work for real. It's whoever wrote the demos fault really. Throw some integration tests up and drive it through its paces. I bet you there's more missing areas.

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