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We are currently working on a responsive design and one of our testers found it awkward that he wasn't able to zoom in or out. When I check some responsive designs (such as Boston Globe, Polygon and Currys.co.uk), it's not possible to use pinch-to-zoom. Is it a convention that when a website is properly scaled, the ability to zoom in or out is disabled and does it still provide a good experience?