The viewport metr is one of those terrible accidents of history we are stuck with. In a sane world, device-width would have been the default on the iPhone just as it had been on every device up to that point. Having the zoom function for sites that were fixed width is reasonable of course but we had been dealing with people having radically different screen sizes on the web for a decade by this point so throwing it all out was a bit of a bonkers choice.
The article is not really clear about which browsers need it or not. I understand that it is not needed for modern browsers, but what about a browser from 5 years ago? It does not cost much to.keep it either.
singpolyma | 11 hours ago
The viewport metr is one of those terrible accidents of history we are stuck with. In a sane world, device-width would have been the default on the iPhone just as it had been on every device up to that point. Having the zoom function for sites that were fixed width is reasonable of course but we had been dealing with people having radically different screen sizes on the web for a decade by this point so throwing it all out was a bit of a bonkers choice.
jaredkrinke | 13 hours ago
Someone should tell Google to update their guidelines. (The feedback link on that page doesn’t work for me, and also doesn’t accept arbitrary text.)
srcrip | 4 hours ago
Is it in GitHub? Probably not I guess?
vbernat | 34 minutes ago
The article is not really clear about which browsers need it or not. I understand that it is not needed for modern browsers, but what about a browser from 5 years ago? It does not cost much to.keep it either.