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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 7, 2017 4:06PM

On 07/04/2017 21:37, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote:
> Browser zoom may not work in *all* cases, especially in the case of mobile content. Keep in mind that for mobile devices, content that developers have built for mobile web content/sites can put *constraints* on the ability for content to zoom and the viewport size. So you still need to test and keep a watch on that.

With a follow-up that recent versions of iOS/Safari, as well as Windows
10 Mobile/Edge, now ignore any meta viewport restrictions that stop
users from zooming by default. Other current mobile browsers have a user
setting for users to explicitly override this (Windows Phone 8 in OS
settings > ease of access > allow zooming on all web content; Chrome
settings > Accessibility > Force enable zoom; Opera settings > Force
enable zoom; Firefox settings > Accessibility > Always enable zoom;
Samsung Internet settings > Manual zoom).

But yes, for older mobile browsers (e.g. older versions of iOS, old
Android/Browser, etc) still relevant advice.

P
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