Post #2809173
2026-01-27 17:26 UTC
@jscholes@dragonscave.space Right, I understand now. Sorry that I didn't understand the first time. Thanks, @Lukew@toot.wales
I agree with you that it is a fundamental failing of browser vendors. And now no web authors have been able to test for it.
When I originally brought this issue up with the CSSWG, I was making that point. I was originally trying to get the CSS fonts spec changed so that the default font size is 16px by default but respects the OS font size accessibility setting. (1/2)
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@joshtumath@mastodon.social 2026-01-27 17:34
@jscholes@dragonscave.space @Lukew@toot.wales But after doing that, it became clear everyone in the group was confused by exactly how browsers do text scaling. David Grogan and I did a large investigation and we found it was so inconsistent between browsers and OSs. And as a result of historical issues with text scaling support, the web's support for it is a mess. And now sadly authors need to opt in to a new mode that fixes this disaster. See comparison table in explainer. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/blob/main/css-env-1/explainers/meta-text-scale.md#comparison-of-legacy-and-scale (2/2)