On tablets and mobile we don't need to show the Zoom controls ( if you look at popular mapping apps like Google Maps and Apple Maps they don't show them either ) as users naturally pinch and expand to zoom in and out on touch screens.
Another way to look at this ( and maybe the correct way to implement it ) would be to say any device that has a Pointer ( think mouse / touchpad etc ) should see the Zoom controls. Because now there are many laptops with touch controls, so you can't rely on that as a way of not showing the control.
What we need to code
I think... Use a CSS media query to detect if the current browser has pointer support and if so, show the zoom controls.
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4 years ago
Description of the new feature
On tablets and mobile we don't need to show the Zoom controls ( if you look at popular mapping apps like Google Maps and Apple Maps they don't show them either ) as users naturally pinch and expand to zoom in and out on touch screens.
Another way to look at this ( and maybe the correct way to implement it ) would be to say any device that has a Pointer ( think mouse / touchpad etc ) should see the Zoom controls. Because now there are many laptops with touch controls, so you can't rely on that as a way of not showing the control.
What we need to code
I think... Use a CSS media query to detect if the current browser has pointer support and if so, show the zoom controls.
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pointer
Alternative solutions (if available)
IF the above doesn't work, there may be other CSS media queries that could help.