Post #2809165
2026-01-27 13:59 UTC
@jscholes@dragonscave.space @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Yes, because those sites are already broken, we can't change how browsers on iOS and Android scale text by default. But the goal is: we want websites to respect the user's text size settings in their OS.
But the CSSWG are always rightly concerned about doing things that will break the web. We could enable by default and shine a light on these failures, but at the detriment of users who need the text scaling.
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@jscholes@dragonscave.space 2026-01-27 14:07
@joshtumath@mastodon.social @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io But text scaling already doesn't work on mobile for the users who need it. So is it simply a case of not breaking those sites even more? If yes, that does carry an implication that a site with text too small to read is considered inherently more useful or accessible than a site with a broken layout. I'm not sure how I feel about such implications being encoded directly into the web platform.
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@cwilcox808@c.im 2026-01-28 03:39
@joshtumath@mastodon.social It sounds like this is a proposal to add a web standard that's equivalent to the Safari-specific `font: -apple-system-body`, is that correct? @jscholes@dragonscave.space @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io