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@vale@fedi.vale.rocks 3 hr. ago

Respected friends and acquaintances, initial-scale is dead! We are freed of its tyranny.

You no longer need to include it in your HTML head. It is an obsolete part of your head’s meta viewport declaration.

The details: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260902-1350

You Don't Need Initial-Scale In Your HTML - 2 Sept 2026 13:50 UTC

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@vale@fedi.vale.rocks 3 hr. ago

Be sure to read @ppk@front-end.social’s look at it. He beat me to the punch by 7 minutes!

https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/0902-initial.html

initial-scale no longer needed

Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.

@pixelambacht@typo.social 2 hr. ago

@vale I guess @matuzo also sorta mentioned this a couple of weeks ago! https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/html-boilerplate#viewport-essential

My HTML boilerplate in 2026 - Manuel Matuzović

Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.

@ppk@front-end.social 2 hr. ago

@pixelambacht @vale @matuzo Ah look at that! Missed it.

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