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Chen
Chen

Reputation: 970

HTML viewport meta tag became mandatory

Recently, I just discovered that I have to add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> to my HTML web pages now in order to render responsively on a phone or a tablet screen.

It wasn't the case last year where I didn't have that meta tag, and the page still worked responsively on a phone or a tablet screen.

Did HTML introduce a change that mandates that meta tag? Where do I see that changelog? And what change broke the responsiveness of the pages without the meta tag?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943207

No. It has been required to stop mobile devices from assuming websites were designed for desktop devices and zooming out since Apple introduced it with the original iPhone.

Upvotes: 1

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