{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html/issues/602","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html/issues/602/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html/issues/602/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html/issues/602/events","html_url":"https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/602","id":179740756,"number":602,"title":"Proposal: devs SHOULD NOT use content=\"user-scalable=no | maximum-scale=1.0 \" on meta","user":{"login":"stevefaulkner","id":835859,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/835859?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner","html_url":"https://github.com/stevefaulkner","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevefaulkner/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-09-28T10:53:51Z","updated_at":"2016-09-28T10:58:09Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The use of the `content=\"user-scalable=no\"` and `maximum-scale=1.0`  on the `meta` element:\r\n\r\n`<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"user-scalable=no\">`\r\n\r\n`<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0\">`\r\n\r\nCauses real problems for users on mobile/touch devices. It stops them from being able to zoom content to suit their needs.\r\n\r\nOne browser has stopped zoom disable being effective: details https://wouterdeschuyter.be/blog/how-to-disable-viewport-scaling-in-ios-10-you-dont-941140811\r\n\r\nWhat I am suggesting is that a normative author recommendation be added to the spec to discourage use of these values along with advice on why. And that conformance checkers should flag uses of these values with a warning.\r\n\r\ncc/ @patrickhlauke @sideshowbarker "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html/issues/comments/250135774","html_url":"https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/602#issuecomment-250135774","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/w3c/html/issues/602","id":250135774,"user":{"login":"patrickhlauke","id":895831,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/895831?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke","html_url":"https://github.com/patrickhlauke","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/patrickhlauke/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-28T10:58:09Z","updated_at":"2016-09-28T10:58:09Z","body":"And note that before Safari's bold move to basically ignore meta directives that stop pinch-zoom, many browsers already included settings (\"Force enable zoom\", \"Always allow zooming\", etc) to disable this."}}
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