Recently I’ve been given a chance to do some work on formatting existing web content to display nicely on the iPhone. Normally, making webpages mobile-compatible consists of having simple layouts, large and readable (non-serifs) fonts, and little to no pictures/media. However, the iPhone has a fully capable browser which allows a web developer to throw existing mobile web pages out the window. That and the overall slickness of the device and its UI really discourages anyone from making mediocre Web1.0-looking pages.
The zooming on the iPhone’s web browser is pretty easy and intuitive, but I have never been a big fan of zooming. Even with the location specific zooming (via double-tapping on a text block or image) I still find it a bit cumbersome. Using the “viewport” meta tag, you can control the dimensions and scaling of your page. Here are the attributes that can be set, from the Apple iPhone web development website :
width The default is 980. The range ...
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