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Add what in a meta tag? Why should web developers change their content to work on defective browsers?

• account42 3mo ago
  Exactly, all the meta tag does is tell mobile browsers to follow the standard as written before they existed. They should just do that by default.
  • phoghed 3mo ago
    Because it wouldn’t work for every website and the web almost never breaks backward compatibility.
    • ErroneousBosh 3mo ago
      So if I have a block of totally unstyled HTML, why wouldn't a phone browser just display it in the most sensible way possible?
    • account42 3mo ago
      It would work a lot better than what mobile browsers are doing now. The only websites that can be argued to be helped by that were those with fixed table layouts - but those are still pretty unusable even with the standards-noncompliant hack. And websites that were mobile-compatible before like plain HTML sites like the TFA are needlessly broken.