https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26248
Summary: Viewport setting disables user zoom
Product: Wikipedia Mobile
Version: .5
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: server
AssignedTo: hcat...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: bakke...@gmail.com
CC: tf...@wikimedia.org
I'm a frequent user of the mobile Wikipedia website, en.m.wikipedia.org. I
noticed a few days ago, around 1-Dec-2010, that I was no longer able to zoom in
on the text on most pages. Since I'm using a device with a small screen this is
quite annoying. After a little research I found that it may due to the viewport
meta tag in the html header:
<meta name = "viewport" content = "width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;
maximum-scale=1.0;">
<meta name = "viewport" content = "user-scalable=0;" />
I think it should be for the end user to decide how he/she likes the pages to
be shown, and on a project like Wikipedia, the actual textual content should be
more important than graphical design constraints. Besides enlarging the text
for easier reading, it's also nice to be able to zoom in to hit a link more
precisely.
Here is a similar discussion about Google Reader:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4113
Hope you'll change the setting back, so I still can enjoy Wikipedia on my smart
phone. :-)
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