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I recently visited a site from HN on my phone, but its text was a bit too small for me to read, so I tried zooming in. To my surprise, it didn't zoom at all! Fr

I recently visited a site from HN on my phone, but its text was a bit too small for me to read, so I tried zooming in. To my surprise, it didn't zoom at all! From this article, the website must have set user-scalable=no. I don't really see the point of this option. The website can (presumably) scale to many different devices already, surely it can then scale with zooming as well. I'd think you could use percentages to create any kind of 'static' ui, if you really wished to do so.

count 15y ago
Setting user-scalable=no makes me RAGE at the developer, and then generally close the site.
- aphexairlines 15y ago
  Shouldn't you rage at your browser for respecting the flag?
  - count 15y ago
    That's a constant low level burning though.
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rokekr 15y ago
user-scalable=yes breaks presentation on iPad when switching orientation http://adactio.com/journal/4470/ http://adactio.com/journal/4470/
- keeperofdakeys 15y ago
  As annoying as it is, it makes sense that some web developers would choose this option. Although, limiting the experience for everyone just because one mobile browser has a bug? I'm pretty sure something similar happened with a certain browser called ie6. From the link you gave, it looks like you can just detect an iPad and disable zooming in that case (although, that requires some javascript or server side programming). So, which version of iOS do they plan on fixing this (or did fix this)? But then, that doesn't factor the people who don't know about OS updates and never sync.