Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual

Navigating a Web Page

You’ll spend approximately zero time learning basic navigation on the Galaxy Tab’s browser, because in almost all respects, it works just like your computer’s browser. To go to a web page, tap the address bar, and then type the URL you want to visit. Use the Forward and Back buttons as you do on a computer’s browser. Tap the circular icon to the right of the Forward button to refresh a page. When a page is loading, that button turns into an X; to stop the page from loading, tap the X. To scroll up and down and sideways on a web page, use the same flicking and dragging gestures you do everywhere else on your tablet.

You can also perform some navigational tricks with your Tab—zooming, scrolling, and switching page orientation—that you can’t easily do on your home computer:

• Rotate your Tab. Turn it 90 degrees to the left or right. Hold it horizontally for a wide view of your page or vertically for a narrower one. Simply choose the best view for the page’s layout and content.

  Note

  Some websites can find out what type of device is accessing them and deliver a different-looking page based on that device. However, some sites think your Galaxy Tab is a smartphone—and pages built for smartphones don’t always display well on your Tab’s roomy screen. Changing your Tab’s orientation can help solve that problem.

  

• Use the two-finger spread. Put two fingers on the Tab’s screen on ...