user-scalable=wrong

March 13, 2013 9:21 PM

On Android, is there a way in any of the available browsers to turn off honoring <meta name = "viewport" content = "initial-scale = x.x, user-scalable = no">? I'm sick of designers that don't want me to zoom in on their preciously designed mobile site.
posted by benzenedream to Technology (4 answers total)

Er, not sure if it literallly does the technical thing you are asking, but Dolphin has been working far better for me than other browsers I have tried. It let's you toggle between mobile and desktop versions of a site and adjust text size. And offers multitouch zoom.

Features
posted by Michele in California at 10:04 PM on March 13, 2013

Best answer: In Chrome for Android: Three dots in the upper right/Settings/Accessibility: check "Force Enable Zoom. Override a website's request to prevent zooming in."
posted by voodoochile at 10:40 PM on March 13, 2013

Best answer: Voodoochile’s answer seems pretty spot-on, but I whipped up this bookmarklet. It reads the viewport tag and replaces the “user-scalable” section to allow zooming. I don’t have an Android handy to test on, but it works just fine on my iPhone.

http://gist.github.com/ryon/5159151
posted by Ryon at 11:05 PM on March 13, 2013 [4 favorites]

I wrote the Always Zoom add-on for mobile Firefox to do exactly this.
posted by mbrubeck at 11:19 AM on March 14, 2013