windows 8.1 - IE11 webmail issues with touch, Chrome seems not to have

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2014-07
  • WhiteZero

    So my company is starting to experiment with giving users tablets (Windows 8.1, Dell Venue 11 tablets). And I'm running into an issue with our webmail application. On a desktop, you'd normally have to double-click an email to open it. But when using IE11, touble-tapping just zooms in the page. Somehow, Chrome opens the mail links with one click, I have no idea how. So our workaround are to have users use Chrome (while many other web apps require IE, so switching around is no preferred) or long-press to get an Open dialog to open the email. I've found that MS offers CSS changes to disable the double-tap to zoom functionality, but I've been told changes to the webmail app are unlikely.

    Is there any way to either a. get Chrome's functionality into IE where a single-click works, or b. disable just IE11's double-tap to zoom functionality?

    Thanks.

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  • Boris_yo

    The "Text Zoom Only" mode is a neat feature in Firefox that ensures only text will be zoomed; images will remain the same size. This avoids making web pages looking awkward when zooming in.

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  • nixda

    Internet Explorer has always had this functionality, called Text Size.
    It's separate from the zoom function and only has 5 options, but is more or less what you are looking for.

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  • TookTheRook

    For Chrome FontSizeIncrease is an extension that allows you to increase the zoom for the text only.

    Could not find any such accelerators for IE.