I don't know that I agree. If you magnified the page to fill the screen you would see too few lines at a time. If you reflowed the text to fill the screen it would violate common typographical/usability wisdom [0] and no longer resemble the finished product.
Also, just realized that screencap isn't even Google Docs.
That's their history extension, not google docs. You can zoom in on documents in Google Docs (or any website in your browser) as much as you want. Also fixed width for text improves readability.
Uniformity is an entirely different issue. All browsers can zoom in, regardless of the CSS, but how they implement it is different.
Safari on mobile devices uses a visual zoom which is like scaling up an image, while desktop browsers usually scale up CSS units and reflow the layout with the bigger dimensions.
or users can use a magnifying glass, if they own one
it is not true that all browsers can zoom in. there are some cases, e.g. mobile platform with stock browser, where CSS dictates no zoom and the browser honours this and therefore cannot zoom
that might be due to browser implementation but ultimately CSS dictates it
I have no interest in mobile Safari but its non-vector based zoom sounds useless, and desktop zooming is unreliable
Look at the image from the article. Ughh. Maybe 3rd of the monitor is actually used to display text
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/21294/4930884/70f...