> http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/metaviewport/
> This has a good explanation of what it's for. Thanks, Tom. Still, the word "font" cannot be found in that article, and I again feel font size in particular is not supposed to be affected by this meta tag. Besides, I'm still puzzled by the way modern browsers consistently font-size declarations in the absence of the meta viewport tag. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/metaviewport/ > > This has a good explanation of what it's for. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Ezequiel Garzón <garzon.luc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings to all, >> >> I can't figure out why a webpage as simple as [2] renders text with >> uniform size in desktop browsers (which I would expect), but like this >> [1] in Android browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and (the main version >> of) Opera. I mean... both P and TD are given font-size: medium! Isn't >> this a violation of CSS standards? I have (rather empirically) found >> that adding the line <meta name="viewport" >> content="width=device-width"> fixes the issue, though I thought this >> meta tag was meant to make the value of width more predictable under >> media queries. >> >> Is this font boosting/inflation? If so, how is this not violating CSS >> standards? >> >> Thanks in advance for your advice. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ezequiel >> >> [1] http://i.imgur.com/WtmgiXQ.png >> [2] Please consider the following: >> >> <style> >> table { border-spacing: 0 } >> td,p { font-size: medium } >> </style> >> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Rerum, >> cumque, pariatur, deserunt id impedit delectus at porro eum quaerat >> officia atque eligendi tempora corporis necessitatibus quos minima >> eaque dolorem eius quia nisi velit hic consequatur ea quis earum unde >> consectetur!</p> >> <table><td>Lorem ipsum dolor sit.</td></table> >> >> (If the paragraph is a bit shorter the font size is the same in P as in TD.) >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] >> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >> List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >> List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html >> Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
