Author: bakkedal
Description:
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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