Le 15 mars 2014 à 05:52, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> You say "Font inflation exists to solve only this problem, which is a > problem that fundamentally would make mobile Web browsers unusable. > It doesn't happen if pages declare a <meta viewport>". > > The OP's page here: http://81.4.104.136/fonts.html doesn't inflate the > fonts for me on my iPhone. It miniaturizes them. Severely. This page > doesn't have the viewport meta tag in the head. Without the meta tag, > I will need to pinch and zoom, but the sizes are ridiculously small. > I'm gonna guess that because there is no layout, the width of the page > is very large so it is zoomed OUT a great deal. Right? Am I missing > something? Mobile Safari, in the absence of any viewport <meta> declaration, assumes a viewport 980px wide (that is equivalent to 980px wide window on a desktop browser). Of course the 'window' on iPad/iPhone is (much) narrower, thus the uniform downwards scaling of the page - this is/was done to insure that pages designed for the desktop would be viewable as a whole on those devices. Apple then invented two things to improve the usability: the double-tap on a column zooms/inflates that column and center it in the viewport, and then the viewport meta to set a specific width. (OK, and a few more - font-inflation in some circumstances [*], and the ability to control it via the text-size-adjust property) So no, you're not really missing anything. And fwiw apple.com still has <meta name="viewport" content="width=1024" /> [*] it always puzzles me how it exactly works, most of the time relying on it is like a game of Russian roulette… and gives bizarre results. On sites that can't really be made “responsive” for a variety of reasons I routinely set the text-size-adjust property to 100% (prefixed!), and use the viewport meta to set a width - similar to what apple.com does. Although Apple doesn't use the text-size-adjust property afaict; but then, they structured their content to avoid the font-inflation problem, I think. Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
