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Re: SC 1.4.4: browser zoom and responsive design

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From: Beranek, Nicholas
Date: Apr 10, 2017 1:09PM


That was my fault for both capitalizing AND putting it in quotes. I meant the latter: a generic term for ready-made frameworks.

I like how browser manufacturers will adapt to some of the user's needs, but I have a real problem with browsers simply ignoring a declaration within the HTML document. While this statement does not support my case, it introduces a precedent that is only propagated by developers who choose to introduce this behavior, subsequently breaking the ability to see the screen better.

In conclusion, TIL (today I learned) that "Browser settings can ignore this rule (user-scalable, minimum-scale, maximum-scale), and iOS10+ ignores it by default." While I don't agree with ignoring explicit rules, I feel this is a win for users.

Nick

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] SC 1.4.4: browser zoom and responsive design

On 10/04/2017 19:14, Beranek, Nicholas wrote:
> Yes, and one of the biggest follies that I see are those disabling
> pinch and zoom through meta viewport declarations a la <meta
> name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, maximum-scale=1.0">.

Circling back to a previous reply on this thread, modern browsers now either ignore this or let users override it.

http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_message?id4346

> This
> is a bad practice that is unfortunately added to many of the
> "Bootstrap" libraries.

Tiny point of clarification: that's definitely not something that's in
*the* Bootstrap (as in http://getbootstrap.com/) framework, but I assume you meant this as a more generic term for ready-made frameworks.

P
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