Post #2809175
2026-01-31 21:14 UTC
@joshtumath@mastodon.social @jscholes@dragonscave.space coming back to this I am a little worried that this is something we'll come to regret as yet another magical meta tag you have to add for your page to just do the right thing. Except it's less obvious when it's missing than say the viewport meta tag.
I know "don't break the web" is the theme of standards but I really do wonder if in this scenario it's the right thing to do. Maybe a meta tag to opt out if you absolutely must?
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@joshtumath@mastodon.social 2026-01-31 22:44
@Lukew@toot.wales @jscholes@dragonscave.space yeah I know what you mean. But I think I've come to the conclusion that there's no other way. It's making consistent all the different ways platforms do text scaling which have created the compat issues. MacOS ignores it's own OS text scaling setting. On Windows, browsers zoom everything based on OS text scale - even the browser chrome. All desktop UAs also have in-app text scaling. Android WebViews do their own weird text scaling unrelated to CSS. Etc...