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leeoniya on Dec 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (1997)

You can add an html meta tag that would solve the mobile issues you're describing, without CSS.

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

LeoPanthera on Dec 4, 2016 [–]

If you set initial-scale=1, isn't width=device-width redundant?

leeoniya on Dec 4, 2016 | [–]

it's probably there cause some early implementation somewhere tried to be "smart" if you weren't explicit.

too lazy to give you definitive answer, but:

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt-1/

[2] https://benfrain.com/understanding-the-viewport-meta-tag-and...

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