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Am I the only one in the world who enjoys reading on a phone? And who likes to zoom in to see pictures? Or, in this case, to read?

And am I the only one who despises sites that lock the scale so that users can't zoom in on mobile devices?

Please, content creators, setting initial-scale is fine, but for the love of pixels, don't lock the scaling to 1.0; let us mobile readers enjoy the fruits of your labor!




Most mobile browsers allow you to disregard the site's preference and enable zoom anyway. At least, Firefox and the stock browser on my device both have an option for that.


Chrome on mobile does too, it's under:

Settings > Accessibility > Force enable zoom

It's a legacy thing really from when people were first starting to experiment with mobile and some people still cut & paste old code.


That's one reason, but mobile zoom really does behave badly with a lot of website designs. Fixed headers in particular.




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