[account42]

Exactly, all the meta tag does is tell mobile browsers to follow the standard as written before they existed. They should just do that by default.

[phoghed]

Because it wouldn’t work for every website and the web almost never breaks backward compatibility.

[ErroneousBosh]

So if I have a block of totally unstyled HTML, why wouldn't a phone browser just display it in the most sensible way possible?