CSS scale transformation on iOS Safari zooms page out - ios

I'm trying to have a snippet of text "zoom & fade in" once the page is loaded. To do so, I'm creating a div with the text inside and setting it to transform immediately:
.whatIwantZoomed {
opacity:0;
/* Vendor Prefixes here */
transform:scale(4,4);
/* Vendor Prefixes here */
transition:transform 1s, opacity 1s;
}
Now, when called from my Javascript function, an animated class is applied which reduces the scale to (1,1):
.whatIwantZoomed.animated {
opacity:1;
/* Vendor Prefixes here */
transform:scale(1,1);
}
Now, on mobile Safari (both iOS 7 & iOS 8), the effect actually does work. The problem is the scaled text is actually larger than the width of the viewport, causing it to 'resize' and zoom the page out. As the animation occurs, the page resizes back to how it should be.
What I'm trying to do here is remove this unwanted viewport width alteration. I've tried setting the body to have a property of overflow-x:hidden; to no avail, and I can't seem to get the viewport metatag to help me either.
Can anyone shed some light on a solution here? Thanks.
EDIT: Added a fiddle demonstrating this. Notice the scrollbars in the HTML frame? That's what I'm trying to prevent.

Try this
DEMO
div {
text-align:center;
background-color:red;
transform-origin: 50% 50%;
transform:perspective(1200) scale(1);
animation:animated 1s ease-in-out;
}
#keyframes animated{
from{transform:scale(10);opacity:0}
}

For anyone coming across this, it seems to be related to this bug
The root cause is things that are off screen incorrectly trigger safari (or wkwebview) to resize the viewport.
Add this to your viewport meta tag:
shrink-to-fit=no

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This question requires some explaining, so please bear with me.
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Unfortunately, the above technique disables this for some reason. Yes, we've got super smooth scrolling, yet the browser bar is always large and the bottom bar permanently stays visible, both taking up valuable space.
My question therefore is, can I have both? I want the super smooth scrolling on the entire page, yet I also want the default hiding behavior of browser elements when scrolling.
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http://www.jungledragon.com/
If you open that in Mobile Safari, you will see the smooth scrolling, yet not the hiding of browser elements when scrolling down.
I think you're setting both the <html> and the <body> element to scroll. You should apply these CSS rules to 1 element you want to be able to scroll.
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I've run into an issue with CSS sprites used for a sidebar widget in our site. On the iPad with iOS 7.1, the sprites are all pushed down too far.
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But unfortunately this great method has one bad side effect - on iPad (and possibly on some other platforms too) page can't be scrolled smoothly. After you stop touching the screen it stops scrolling imediately, there's no smooth and slow easing.
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http://github.com/ryanve/verge
Is there any way to use this CSS fix and make the iPad scroll correctly?
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html { overflow-y scroll }

How to fix iOS Viewport Bug(s)?

Imagine the following setup:
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=yes, width=640" />
Default CSS:
body { width: 100%; }
CSS change on some element (let's call it button-X) click:
body {
margin: 0 0 0 -webkit-calc(100% - 100px);
min-width: 640px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
What does this do in desktop browser?
It shifts entire body almost 100% to the right. Horizontal scrollbar doesn't appear. You only see left part (100px) of the body positioned to the very right of your screen.
What does this do in iPhone 4S iOS 6.0.1?
There are two behaviors actually:
INCORRECT: If you just run Safari and click button-X it will start displaying your website at like 1200px instead of 640px.... shifted body will make entire viewport have 630px of blank space + body width = ~1200px. Even if body has position: absolute; or position: fixed; which in theory should allow positioning elements outside viewport but it doesn't. iOS makes viewport so large that your elements that are supposed to be off the screen are on the screen.
CORRECT: I wouldn't ask this question because maybe that's how it works and it can't be changed BUT there is fix for that so I assume it's a bug of iOS. If I run Safari and I tap it with 2 fingers and move them together (like to zoom out) and then click button-X it works perfectly. This action of tapping with two fingers doesn't change anything to viewport. Since viewport is set to 640px it will remain 640px after releasing fingers so literary nothing changes... but it starts working perfectly fine after this simple action.
The question is - how to perform this action (2) programmatically? I've tried:
jQuery(window).trigger('resize');
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Interesting: it will make viewport ~1200px even if you set user-scalable: no
This didn't change anything. Basically I want absolutely positioned elements (or with overflow: hidden;) to be off the viewport like in desktop browsers.
Have you tried initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no? Also, I think you are trying to fix it backwards. What is exactly the thing you want to do? Not the behaviour of the viewport or DOM elements, but the result website/webapp.
Anyway - in general, viewport is body. It's weird to make the body wider than the viewport and expect the body to clip itself. Try setting the body at a fixed width (not minimum, because this way it can get as much wide as it wants), and putting a div container inside the body, and apply your margin CSS change to the div, not the body - body should have the width set and overflow-x:hidden.

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