Text Magnifying glass for iOS device - javascript

Hi was wondering if anyone knows how to make a magnifying glass effect for text on the iPhone. There are so many JavaScript examples online for how to do this for images and there are even a few that are designed for text, however none of these work with touch and drag on a mobile device.
Im a bit of a noobie with HTML and JavaScript so any help would be appreciated. (by the way I know the iPhone has a built in magnify but I need it to be a lot bigger and zoom farther)
Cheers

you can check out this for your idea, this demo implement the effect
http://www.craftymind.com/creating-the-loupe-or-magnifying-glass-effect-on-the-iphone/
the main code is like this
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
// here we're just doing some transforms on the view we're magnifying,
// and rendering that view directly into this view,
// rather than the previous method of copying an image.
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextTranslateCTM(context,1*(self.frame.size.width*0.5),1*(self.frame.size.height*0.5));
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.5, 1.5);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context,-1*(touchPoint.x),-1*(touchPoint.y));
[self.viewToMagnify.layer renderInContext:context];
}

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