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Lewton

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For me:

1. I'm old enough to need reading glasses. 2. etc.

If you have poor eyesight, are you aware that you have the option of increasing the font-size device-wide in your device settings?

Why should my mother have to change device-wide settings on my device just because she wants to read something using it?

(Yes, people do lend their devices.)

User-scaling of the viewport is thankfully not the only way of enlarging text inside of a web page. It's possible to design a site that allows the user to change the font-size of relevant UI controls without rendering the layout wider than the device screen (causing the user to have to pan around to read it).

If you're not providing a better experience than a fully working desktop site, then you shouldn't attempt responsive design at all and let mobile users use a non-targeted but working site. I only shut of user-scaling on sites where the targeted mobile experience is better than a scaled fully-working desktop layout.

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