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Disabling the viewport on websites that need zoom is really bad design, but if you have a website that is optimized or at least scales well to mobile sizes then disabling zoom is better. If the user doesn't have a reason to zoom on to content then accidentally zooming makes for a worse experience.

Although I agree that there should be an option to disable the disabling of viewport zooming; I think it makes for a better UX for most mobile website viewers.



> then disabling zoom is better

When the page loads no zooming happens; how about we let me decide whether or not I feel like zooming it or not?

If I accidentally zoom I know how to not-accidentally un-zoom.

All zoom-disabling is user hostile.


So, I think I agree with this but I have a legit question: If this is such the case, why is there almost no zooming functionality in native apps?




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