Post #2809176
2026-01-31 22:44 UTC
@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...
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@joshtumath@mastodon.social 2026-01-31 22:48
@Lukew@toot.wales @jscholes@dragonscave.space I'm hoping the current state of affairs will be seen as a quirks mode for text scaling and we'll move on to a standard way of doing it. If we fix it by default, so many websites break (which you see by scaling up text on a desktop browser and simulating a mobile viewport). And if that's people's experience browsing the web, I worry they're going to stop using text scaling and see it as a broken and unreliable accessibility feature.