On: 300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android

[jaffathecake]

That removes the 300ms delay in Chrome and Firefox. Although you lose pinch zooming too, which can be a nice usability & accessibility feature.

[eliot_sykes → jaffathecake]

So to be clear, as long as the content attribute contains "width=device-width", regardless of what comes after it, the 300ms is removed in those browsers?

[mbrubeck → eliot_sykes]

Firefox currently disables the 300ms delay only if zooming is disabled (either with user-scalable=no or by setting identical min-zoom and max-zoom).

We are discussing whether to follow Chromium's lead and also disable double-tap on pages with width=device-width:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941995

(I am a mobile Firefox developer.)

[kinlan → mbrubeck]

What would be the convincing factor and how can we share any data/lessons with you?

[mbrubeck → kinlan]

I think we're already pretty convinced - at least, I am. :) We're just checking to make sure we have consensus; so far I haven't seen any objections.

[jaffathecake → eliot_sykes]

In the current versions of Chrome & Firefox, the viewport needs to be unzoomable to remove the 300ms delay. However, in Chrome Beta, the 300ms is removed as long as the viewport is <= device-width.