Zooming in Safari 5 maintains page positioning

Jun 14, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: tchenj

I don't actually know if this is a new feature or if it's just a refinement to the zoom behavior, but in Safari 5 I've noticed that Zooming in or out (the Plus/Minus buttons) no longer keep the scroll at a set point but keeps it relative to where the page currently is.

In Safari 4, zooming would make everything bigger and your screen would appear to have jumped to some other point on a webpage as the text/pictures/video that were above pushed what you were looking at off screen. Now, zooming keeps what you were focussed on dead center while making everything bigger (or at least does a better job of it). It's a very minor change but it's greatly appreciated :) No more having to zoom and then re-scroll to where you were on a page.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. Safari 4 did have its fair share of wonky behaviors.]

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