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For reference the iPhone 4 had already been released, so mobile design was already a thing. The viewport meta tag wasn't a thing though, or at least not widespr

For reference the iPhone 4 had already been released, so mobile design was already a thing. The viewport meta tag wasn't a thing though, or at least not widespread as HTML5 release spec was finalized by W3C in 2014. I did not see that the website was this old when I first saw it. Still, I've used websites from the 90s that worked better on mobile lol (I also used websites in 2023 that were awful, to be fair).

TylerE 3y ago
In a lot of ways 2010ish was about the worst for mobile web. Pages were huge and had tons of JavaScript, etc, but responsive design wasn’t a thing yet.
ttepasse 3y ago
The viewport value for the meta element was never a part of HTML 5. Apple first invented it for the iPhone 1, published it in 2007, and other manufacturers of mobile browser then copied it. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/UsingtheViewport/UsingtheViewport.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap... At the time for iPhone 4 the viewport meta thingy was an old thing, but of course a lot of websites hadn’t updated in the previous four years. The CSS Working Group has for some years specs in preparation which would make the viewport thingy official: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-viewport/#viewport-meta https://drafts.csswg.org/css-viewport/#viewport-meta