Android OSK resizes visual viewport by default + <meta> opt-out

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: No developer-visible change
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 108)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Summary

The Android On-Screen Keyboard resizes the visual viewport by default rather than the initial containing block. Authors can opt out of this using the new "interactive-widget" meta-viewport key.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-viewport/#interactive-widget-section
Firefox: N/A
Safari: N/A
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1353728

Explainers: https://github.com/bramus/viewport-resize-behavior/blob/main/explainer.md

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