Consider this stacked subplot:

The axes are linked and zoom is only enabled in the x direction.
When you click-drag to zoom, only one subplot shows the zoom preview window. But after zoom executes, all 3 subplots are zoomed in. This is disorienting when the x axes are linked like in this plot. It looks like you're going to zoom-in on only one subplot, but then all 5 subplots update.
Yep, that would be cool!
Here's another great subplot example that could really benefit from a coordinated zoom box:
https://plot.ly/~mainakjas/385

Any progress on this issue? Is it possible to have a zoom region over all lines at once?
is this resolved by the new axis-matching attr? #1549
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Here's another great subplot example that could really benefit from a coordinated zoom box:
https://plot.ly/~mainakjas/385