It's my understanding that this HTML is (mis)used to reduce tap-delay on mobile devices: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6397748/whats-the-point-of-meta-vi

It's my understanding that this HTML is (mis)used to reduce tap-delay on mobile devices: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6397748/whats-the-point-of-meta-viewport-user-scalable-no-in-the-google-maps-api/16910559 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6397748/whats-the-point-... That's doesn't excuse it, of course. I think it's boilerplate that ends up pasted into a lot of websites.