http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/metaviewport/
This has a good explanation of what it's for. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Ezequiel Garzón <garzon.luc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings to all, > > I can't figure out why a webpage as simple as [2] renders text with > uniform size in desktop browsers (which I would expect), but like this > [1] in Android browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and (the main version > of) Opera. I mean... both P and TD are given font-size: medium! Isn't > this a violation of CSS standards? I have (rather empirically) found > that adding the line <meta name="viewport" > content="width=device-width"> fixes the issue, though I thought this > meta tag was meant to make the value of width more predictable under > media queries. > > Is this font boosting/inflation? If so, how is this not violating CSS > standards? > > Thanks in advance for your advice. > > Cheers, > > Ezequiel > > [1] http://i.imgur.com/WtmgiXQ.png > [2] Please consider the following: > > <style> > table { border-spacing: 0 } > td,p { font-size: medium } > </style> > <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Rerum, > cumque, pariatur, deserunt id impedit delectus at porro eum quaerat > officia atque eligendi tempora corporis necessitatibus quos minima > eaque dolorem eius quia nisi velit hic consequatur ea quis earum unde > consectetur!</p> > <table><td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit.</td></table> > > (If the paragraph is a bit shorter the font size is the same in P as in TD.) > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
