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Re: HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you limit it to 1.0 by default across the board, in particular, you mean, right?

This is the thing that limit the zoom-out with a pinch in safari/scroll beyond the page and see the "surface" underneath I'm assuming correctly hopefully

There's no reason to ever defeat the pinch-in behavior, it's what lets the user know the page is fully zoomed out.

maximum-scale=1.0 causes the page to be unscalable on mobile and is almost never what you want.

Re: HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

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Does anybody remember that funny thread where some dev here was saying "who calls it HTML5 anymore" as if everyone else was out of touch with stagnating irrelevant skills that would immediately throw red flags during a phone screen? It just gave me a chuckle thinking about it Thanks for the guide!

Uh... what do people call "it" now-a-days? Serious

Maybe just HTML?

Re: HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

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Why would be required if you can set it in the HTTP headers? I've also read that modern browsers (everything except IE) will look for a byte-order mark.

Quite a few of these can be set in the HTTP headers as well, but people editing templates don't always have access or know how to do it.

BTW; not all UTF-8 text has a byte-order mark, I would say most of them don't.

Re: HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

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> The above 2 meta tags must come first in the to consistently ensure proper document rendering. It looks like they don't follow their own advice:

Do what they say, not what they do! maximum-scale has only three valid uses: 1. extreme values, like 5.0, if a browser misdetects that zooming that far is useful when it isn't (rare) 2. pure-app websites like maps or video games that have alternative scaling arrangements and browser pinch-zoom gets in the way. 3. there is no number three, and the thing you are thinking of is incorrect. maximum-scale is an automatic u…

> maximum-scale is an automatic usability and accessibility fail

I wish more people realized this. As somebody that's visually impaired, it makes mobile browsing quite painful for me.

Re: HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

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post #14

Does anybody remember that funny thread where some dev here was saying "who calls it HTML5 anymore" as if everyone else was out of touch with stagnating irrelevant skills that would immediately throw red flags during a phone screen? It just gave me a chuckle thinking about it Thanks for the guide!

Uh... what do people call "it" now-a-days? Serious

It's kinda like how sometimes you use "Javascript" but in some contexts you're talking about a specific version (e.g. new features) and will instead mention it by a version name.
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