You Don't Need Initial-Scale In Your HTML

Though

width=device-width

handled things broadly,

initial-scale=1.0

was important for many years (…). However, this isn’t the case any more. (…) All you need is

<meta name=“viewport” content=“width=device-width”>

.

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

Will update Perron’s default layout.

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