Disable pinch/zoom in Android 2.1 browser on HTC devices

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I'm building a mobile site and have the following meta tag set in the header:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

Unfortunately, this isn't working on HTC devices (HTC Hero, etc) with Android 2.1. Any ideas on how I can disable pinch-to-zoom in this browser? Works fine on the iPhone.

Answer

Garrows picture Garrows · Oct 15, 2010

I have contacted HTC about this issue and they have informed me that they don't have support for the viewport meta tag at all and there is no other way to disable zoom.

Quite disappointing.

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