Safari 4: Real-world test

Full-Page Zoom

No wait! Zooming is fun and, more importantly, interesting!

Yeah, you've been able to zoom your OS X desktop for like, what, a million years? But Safari now lets you zoom in solely on Web pages, leaving the menu bar and dock at their normal size.

It utilises multi-touch as well, so you can enlarge and shrink a complete page -- text, images and even video -- by pinching and stretching two fingers on the MacBook's multi-touch trackpad, then use two fingers to fling the page in whatever direction you need to look.

Firefox has had full-page zoom for a while, and it's been possible to hack previous versions of Safari to enable similar functionality by using a Terminal command. This is another case of Apple playing catch-up in the browser world, but it's done it well, even if Mozilla fans will be sniggering that their browser has done this simple task for ages.

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