A feature common to a great very many HTML boilerplates is this line:

html <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

The initial-scale=1.0 bit was present to fix an ancient issue on iPhones. When rotating the screen into a landscape orientation, the page would keep the same width as when it was in portrait, making everything appear very zoomed in.

This isn't an issue any more. I've tested it across very many devices, and it appears it was fixed in iOS 9, which released back in 2015. In addition to testing, I've consulted a great number of other professionals, and nobody has been able to find evidence of it being needed any longer.

You can safely simplify the meta viewport declaration down to:

html <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

It isn't hurting you to leave it there, but it is vestigial and unnecessary.

Further details: - https://vale.rocks/micros/20260902-1350 - https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/0902-initial.html

I am considering building a family website for my family. My mother's extended family built one, but it's something nobody really ever visits. I'm considering building a wiki-style site (locked behind user accounts) to have a page for each family member, each nuclear family, and then they can build upon it and create pages for vacations and things like that. I would then have a mini social feed for us each to share pages we've created. For example, my sister might say "Just made a page for our Disney Land 2026 trip! Here's the link."

Might be overscoped, but I thought it'd be a fun way to start capturing family stories.

If you've built a family site for your family (or someone else's) what did it have? What purpose did it serve and what features were built into it?