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On mobile, if I zoom out to 85% everything gets smaller and more things fit on the screen (great!). Zooming out further to 75% makes everything larger... 50% an
by ctippett 2y ago
On mobile, if I zoom out to 85% everything gets smaller and more things fit on the screen (great!). Zooming out further to 75% makes everything larger... 50% and things get larger still (more so than they were at their default size at 100%).
The layout works remarkably well on mobile regardless, but I wasn't expecting such unintuitive zoom behaviour.
- hollerith 2y ago>I wasn't expecting such unintuitive zoom behaviour. Huh. I expect user-interface surprises on web pages. Interacting with the other user interfaces in my life is much less surprising.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoYou usually can’t viewport zoom non-web UI.
- hollerith 2y agoI beg to differ. The most useful kind of zoom zooms the entire UI and this is straightforward to do on Windows and ChromeOS in increments of 25%. It is possible in Gnome, too, (again in increements of 25%, at Settings > Displays > Scale), but it is not straightforward because before you can do it, you have to say, `gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"` once per install of the OS. None of them exhibit the wonky behavior of zooming a web page described above.
- yazzku 2y agoI've seen this behaviour on other web pages too, and it also occurs on desktop. A mystery of life.
- saagarjha 2y agoAre you on iOS perhaps?
- ctippett 2y agoYes, an iPhone. As an occasional writer of CSS, I assume the behaviour is the result of using font-size as the basis for sizing elements. As the font-size increases due to various media breakpoints triggering, so too do the elements on the page.