Information Technology Reference
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Browse the Web
Web browsers on smartphones have always been pretty terrible. The
iPhone demonstrated that it's possible to render a Web site that didn't
need to be custom programmed to be readable on a mobile device.
However, even that didn't prove to be 100 percent accurate, because
although Safari on the iPhone
can
render a page as it would appear in a
desktop Web browser, the screen size is still a limitation, leading many
sites to adjust their code to accommodate.
The iPad is almost all screen, with a version of Safari that displays Web
sites just as you'd see them on your Mac or PC. We no longer wonder or
marvel at how we get information online—we just get it.
