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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:rbyers@chromium.org" title="Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org>"> <span class="fn">Rick Byers</span></a>
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bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - When swiping through an image gallery on iOS, users may accidentally navigate"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149015">bug 149015</a>
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<td style="text-align:right;">Summary</td>
<td>Provide a way to disable history gestures (swipe left/right)
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<td>When swiping through an image gallery on iOS, users may accidentally navigate
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - When swiping through an image gallery on iOS, users may accidentally navigate"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149015#c8">Comment # 8</a>
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bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - When swiping through an image gallery on iOS, users may accidentally navigate"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149015">bug 149015</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:rbyers@chromium.org" title="Rick Byers <rbyers@chromium.org>"> <span class="fn">Rick Byers</span></a>
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<pre>Updating the summary to describe the problem instead of a potential solution. This is apparently a common complaint from Google Photos users. They're swiping through their images on an iPhone and suddenly they navigate backwards instead of going to the next image as expected.
I was recently talking to web developers from Flipkart (huge mobile e-commerce company in India). They mentioned this exact problem was a huge problem for usability of their mobile website as well (and part of the reason they abandoned the mobile web in favor of a native app: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-indias-flipkart-abandoned-its-mobile-website/">http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-indias-flipkart-abandoned-its-mobile-website/</a>).
Perhaps there are other solutions here than just providing a way to disable the feature? Eg. if Safari sees a series of swipes that are handled by JS and then immediately sees another only slightly to the left/right, isn't it most likely that the user is intending to repeat their previous action?</pre>
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