There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?
Edit: Come to think of it, if it's on my device, it's already saved in some way, shape and form. Clearly nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue Google.
What Google should of done is offered to advertise that an image is available to purchase...
Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense. And even when it seems to from your perspective, the way others interpret it does not.
> nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue
Technical people can be arseholes too you know. Many patent trolls are technical people, not just legal eagles, for instance.
This isn't about the law. It's unclear if the law would require something like this or not. Google decided not to find out by settling. The settlement terms were up to the two companies to decide and were not mandated by laws.
Either that or deliberate user filtering: if you can't figure out right-click (or long press) then "open in new tab" on your own, then maybe you are not the class of user the creator wants to support :-).
I doubt the inconvenience is deliberate, more a side effect of some other design consideration. There are smaller images on each of the widget description pages (though they also scale oddly in places) which in total provide more detail than that one image. Perhaps drop the author a polite message suggesting that they include a "view full image" link near the screenshot on the opening page or with the image itself as the mouse target?
And why do they disable native scrolling? Apple spent hundreds of man hours to get scrolling just right in iOS, why override the OS?
You can't even scroll the page if it has a code block on it.
On Android there is a setting to always enable zoom.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6397748/whats-the-point-...
That's doesn't excuse it, of course.
I think it's boilerplate that ends up pasted into a lot of websites.
It's a good thing when the makers of a browser actually care about the user.
Still doesn't fix the stretching of the image...
Do you mean you can't zoom the image or do you mean you can't zoom the site?
And on what combination of device, os, and browser can you not zoom the image/site?
On Firefox on Linux on my laptop I can ctrl+scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the site, or right-click on the image and select `view image` from the context-sensitive menu which opens the image in another tab and from there the cursor becomes a magnifying glass.