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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Apr 7, 2017 4:16PM

Thanks for that update Patrick!

Katie Haritos-Shea
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On Apr 7, 2017 6:06 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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