Introduction

By all accounts, the iPhone is one of the most successful products in consumer electronics history. In a little over two months following its release, Apple and AT&T sold more than one million iPhones in the United States alone. Then, as if to sweeten the pot, Apple launched the iPod touch, a new iPod that shares the same touch-screen technology as the iPhone.

In addition to the touch screen, the iPhone and iPod touch have something else in common: Mobile Safari.

With most mobile devices, the browser is anemic and underpowered. Although passable in a pinch, they usually display only bare-bones, stripped-down versions of most web pages. Mobile Safari changes that. It’s a full-fledged browser that displays pages just the way you would ...

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