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0 pointsstormbeta10y ago0 comments

I couldn't disagree more. There should always be a way to make the content I'm looking at bigger in order to see it more clearly, especially for users with poor eyesight.

"responsive design" does not magically eliminate this need, and I agree with the posters saying that disabling of user-scrolling should never have even been allowed in the first place.

And that's not even touching on the fact that most "responsive" sites I've seen get it horribly wrong.

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lexicality10y ago

You can't zoom in normal apps.

gorena10y ago

In apps properly coded against the UIFont APIs, you can: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios//document...:

silon710y ago

That's why web is/was better for many things, especially when you could increate fonts only (unfortunately, many sites have bad css that breaks this).

pjc5010y ago

That's a deficiency in native apps, not something to be taken away when it does exist for web apps.

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