Pinch to zoom a full-screen picture.

Pinch zooms around the fingers (up to 5x), one finger pans a zoomed picture
within its edges, double-tap zooms in at a spot and again to reset, and
the wheel zooms on a desktop. A tap still closes an unzoomed picture (after
a beat, so it can be the first half of a double-tap); a gesture never does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 102 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/app.js b/src/app.js
index febb2cd..4003e1b 100644
--- a/src/app.js
+++ b/src/app.js
@@ -561,12 +561,110 @@ setTimeout(() => { if (_bootDeciding) { _bootDeciding = false; render(); } }, 40
 function imageViewer() {
   if (!ui.lightbox) return null;
   const close = () => goBack(() => { ui.lightbox = null; });
-  return h('div', {
+  // a tap on the picture closes it too (the × is small and far) — unless
+  // it's zoomed, or the tap is half of a double-tap (see attachZoom)
+  const img = h('img', { src: ui.lightbox, alt: '', draggable: 'false' });
+  const box = h('div', {
     class: 'lightbox', onClick: close,
     role: 'dialog', 'aria-modal': 'true',
-  }, h('img', { src: ui.lightbox, alt: '', onClick: (e) => { e.stopPropagation(); close(); } }), // a tap on the picture closes it too: the × is small and far
+  }, img,
      // stop the bubble: the backdrop closes too, and two pops walk out of the room
      h('button', { class: 'lightbox-x', 'aria-label': t('close'), onClick: (e) => { e.stopPropagation(); close(); } }, '\u00d7'));
+  attachZoom(box, img, close);
+  return box;
+}
+// Pinch to zoom (up to 5×) around the fingers, drag to pan a zoomed picture,
+// double-tap (or double-click) to zoom in at a spot and again to reset, the
+// wheel to zoom on a desktop. The page's viewport meta turns browser zoom
+// off, so the picture does its own. Only the first-mounted nodes keep these
+// listeners: later renders morph into them, and the img is left out of the
+// morph so its transform survives a background render.
+function attachZoom(box, img, close) {
+  img._skipMorph = true;
+  const MAX = 5, pts = new Map();
+  let s = 1, x = 0, y = 0, pinch = null, pan = null, moved = false, lastTap = 0, tapTimer = 0;
+  const base = () => ({ bx: img.offsetLeft + img.offsetWidth / 2, by: img.offsetTop + img.offsetHeight / 2 });
+  const clamp = () => {
+    if (s <= 1) { s = 1; x = 0; y = 0; return; }
+    const mx = Math.max(0, (img.offsetWidth * s - window.innerWidth) / 2), my = Math.max(0, (img.offsetHeight * s - window.innerHeight) / 2);
+    x = Math.min(mx, Math.max(-mx, x)); y = Math.min(my, Math.max(-my, y));
+  };
+  const apply = (animate) => {
+    img.style.transition = animate ? 'transform .2s ease' : 'none';
+    img.style.transform = s === 1 && !x && !y ? '' : `translate(${x}px, ${y}px) scale(${s})`;
+    img.style.cursor = s > 1 ? 'grab' : '';
+  };
+  // scale to ns keeping the picture point under (cx, cy) where it is
+  const zoomAt = (ns, cx, cy) => {
+    const { bx, by } = base();
+    const px = (cx - bx - x) / s, py = (cy - by - y) / s;
+    s = Math.min(MAX, Math.max(1, ns));
+    x = cx - bx - px * s; y = cy - by - py * s;
+  };
+  box.addEventListener('pointerdown', (e) => {
+    if (e.target.closest('.lightbox-x')) return;
+    pts.set(e.pointerId, { x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY });
+    if (pts.size === 1) moved = false;
+    begin();
+  });
+  const begin = () => {
+    const p = [...pts.values()];
+    if (p.length >= 2) {
+      const { bx, by } = base();
+      const mx = (p[0].x + p[1].x) / 2, my = (p[0].y + p[1].y) / 2;
+      pinch = { d: Math.hypot(p[0].x - p[1].x, p[0].y - p[1].y) || 1, s, px: (mx - bx - x) / s, py: (my - by - y) / s };
+      pan = null;
+    } else if (p.length === 1) {
+      pinch = null;
+      pan = { sx: p[0].x, sy: p[0].y, x, y };
+    }
+  };
+  box.addEventListener('pointermove', (e) => {
+    if (!pts.has(e.pointerId)) return;
+    pts.set(e.pointerId, { x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY });
+    const p = [...pts.values()];
+    if (pinch && p.length >= 2) {
+      const { bx, by } = base();
+      const d = Math.hypot(p[0].x - p[1].x, p[0].y - p[1].y);
+      const mx = (p[0].x + p[1].x) / 2, my = (p[0].y + p[1].y) / 2;
+      s = Math.min(MAX, Math.max(0.8, pinch.s * d / pinch.d)); // a little give below 1, snapped back on release
+      x = mx - bx - pinch.px * s; y = my - by - pinch.py * s;
+      moved = true;
+      apply(false);
+    } else if (pan && p.length === 1) {
+      const dx = p[0].x - pan.sx, dy = p[0].y - pan.sy;
+      if (Math.abs(dx) + Math.abs(dy) > 8) moved = true;
+      if (s > 1) { x = pan.x + dx; y = pan.y + dy; clamp(); apply(false); }
+    }
+  });
+  const end = (e) => {
+    if (!pts.delete(e.pointerId)) return;
+    if (pts.size) { begin(); return; } // one finger lifted mid-pinch: carry on as a pan
+    pinch = pan = null;
+    clamp(); apply(true);
+  };
+  box.addEventListener('pointerup', end);
+  box.addEventListener('pointercancel', end);
+  // a drag or a pinch is not a tap: nothing closes after one
+  box.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
+    if (moved) { moved = false; e.stopImmediatePropagation(); e.preventDefault(); return; }
+    if (e.target !== img) return;
+    e.stopPropagation();
+    const now = Date.now();
+    if (now - lastTap < 300) {
+      clearTimeout(tapTimer); lastTap = 0;
+      if (s > 1) { s = 1; x = 0; y = 0; } else { zoomAt(2.5, e.clientX, e.clientY); clamp(); }
+      apply(true);
+      return;
+    }
+    lastTap = now;
+    if (s === 1) tapTimer = setTimeout(close, 300);
+  }, true);
+  box.addEventListener('wheel', (e) => {
+    e.preventDefault();
+    zoomAt(s * Math.exp(-e.deltaY * 0.002), e.clientX, e.clientY);
+    clamp(); apply(false);
+  }, { passive: false });
 }
 if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
   window.addEventListener('keydown', (e) => { if (e.key === 'Escape' && ui.lightbox) goBack(() => { ui.lightbox = null; }); });
diff --git a/src/style.css b/src/style.css
index e907bd5..15fcad0 100644
--- a/src/style.css
+++ b/src/style.css
@@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ html:has(#app .chat-card), body:has(#app .chat-card) { overflow: hidden; }
   display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
   background: rgba(8, 10, 14, .94); padding: 16px;
   animation: lightbox-in .12s ease-out;
+  touch-action: none; /* pinch and drag are the picture's own (see attachZoom) */
 }
 /* Nothing scrolls behind a picture that fills the screen — and the reserved
    scrollbar gutter (see html, top of file) stands down with it, or it shows
@@ -737,6 +738,7 @@ html.no-scroll { overflow: hidden; scrollbar-gutter: auto; }
 .lightbox img {
   max-width: 100%; max-height: 100svh; max-height: 100vh;
   object-fit: contain; border-radius: 6px; cursor: zoom-out;
+  user-select: none; -webkit-user-select: none; transform-origin: center center; will-change: transform;
 }
 .lightbox-x {
   position: absolute; top: max(10px, env(safe-area-inset-top)); right: 10px;