When I first experienced browsing with mobile devices the stand out feature was zoom. Double-tap on a column of text and it would zoom to fill the width of the

When I first experienced browsing with mobile devices the stand out feature was zoom. Double-tap on a column of text and it would zoom to fill the width of the screen. This (and similar navigation features such as swipe to scroll) made mobile browsing preferable to desktop browsing for me, despite the smaller screen. Fast forward a few years. Almost every website has a mobile version. Three quarters of these mobile sites (it seems) disable the devices native zoom. This makes zero sense. The device with the three inch screen is the one that needs zoom. It’s like the authors of mobile libraries are all twelve years old, can hear mosquito ringtones, and read microscopic text while bouncing up and down in the back of a car. Well, here is some news. People over thirty can’t read your website. The first thing we do when we get to your site is scroll to the bottom for the link that says desktop version.