Access iPhone-only web pages with Safari

May 02, '08 07:30:04AM

Contributed by: merlyn

Many web sites now have pages especially formatted for the iPhone, enabled by detecting the "user agent" for the iPhone Safari browser. You can easily visit these pages with your desktop or laptop version of Safari.

First, enable the Develop menu (as indicated in the earlier hint; it used to be called the Debug menu). Then, from the new Develop menu, select User Agent » Mobile Safari x.x.x - iPhone. Try it on Google, for example, and you'll get the right-sized iPhone Google pages. Cool.

[robg adds: Most browsers include some method of setting the user agent, so you can view iPhone-only sites in pretty much any browser you want to use.]

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