June 2010
Beginner to intermediate
317 pages
9h 56m
English
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Chapter 4. Surf the Web
Sure, you can surf the Web on a smartphone. Many phones have their own browsers that show scaled-down versions of websites. But odds are you strain your neck and squint your eyes to read the tiny screen, even when you zoom in for a closer look. For most people, microbrowsing is fine on a train or waiting in line at the cineplex. But who wants to do that in a coffee shop, campus library, or on the couch?
Browsing the Web on the iPad eliminates the old strain ‘n’ squint. It uses a touch-sensitive version of Apple’s Safari browser that shows you pretty much a whole web page at once. Forget mouse-clicking—your fingers do the walking around the Web on the iPad; you jump from link to link with a tap and zoom in on pages with a two-finger spread.
From the basics of tablet-style browsing to general tips about security, this chapter gives you the grand tour of Safari on the iPad, your wide-open window to the World Wide Web.
Take a Safari Tour
You get onto the Web by tapping the Safari icon on the Home screen (circled); the very first time you do so, a blank browser window appears, ready for your instructions. To type a web address into the browser, tap the address bar so the iPad keyboard pops up, ready for your input.
Safari has most of the features of a desktop browser: bookmarks, autocomplete (for web addresses), cookies, a pop-up blocker, and so on.
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