By zoom I assume you mean zoom on an element and not the entire page?
The tweak was requested by Kaity when reviewing the story that added this for acceptance but I hadn't realised this was the reason it was the size it is.
Personally I would suggest optimising for look and feel than to support the Chrome browser but I have no strong preference in terms of the size we end up with. I defer to Kaity to hear her reasoning.
Quick question. I noticed the story was changed slightly on Monday and now includes:
"Decrease font size of Search Wikipedia search input text and headings on Nearby and Uploads from 18px to 16px"
The text in the search input is bigger for a reason: Chrome on Android will zoom the whole page if the text is too small (too small for someone from Google I guess). We have to either keep the text size the way it is or disable zooming altogether to prevent this. So, what should we do?
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Juliusz