I’m amused, I’ve been evaluating a PDA\/iPod replacement and have been impressed with the ‘full screen’ presentation ability of the Safari web browser on the iPhone\/ iPod Touch devices. For many years many popular websites have produced reduced displays that are more or less tailored to PDA’s and cellphones which have small screens. This is great for PDA’s and mobile phone users, but requires an extra effort on the part of the website builder, an effort that many sites choose to forgo. <\/p>\n
So it is with much amusement that during this research I find that there are great efforts being rendered to redirect mobile Safari browsers to a reduced screen real-estate copy of any given website an iPhone friendly page<\/i> if you will. This is, in a some measure, a vindication of the previous efforts of website creators to provide Palm PDA’s, WinCE, Symbian browsers with a Practical<\/strong> web interface to their sites. <\/p>\n This, more or less, mitigates the one great Mobile Safari advantage on the iPod Touch\/ iPhone. You don’t need Zoom and shrink on a smaller screen. You don’t need to download, and render full sized graphics. You don’t need 3G bandwidth. And in one step, renders the browsers, on all the other mobile Phones and PDA’s, equal<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m amused, I’ve been evaluating a PDA\/iPod replacement and have been impressed with the ‘full screen’ presentation ability of the Safari web browser on the iPhone\/ iPod Touch devices. For many years many popular websites have produced reduced displays that…<\/span><\/p>\n