August 2008
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 33m
English
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The Address Bar
As on a computer, this Web browser offers four tools for navigating the Web: the address bar, bookmarks, the History list, and good old link-tapping. These pages cover each of these methods in turn.
The address bar is the strip at the top of the screen where you type in a Web page's address. And it so happens that four of the iPhone's greatest tips and shortcuts all have to do with this important navigational tool:
Insta-scroll to the top. You can jump directly to the address bar, no matter how far down a page you've scrolled, just by tapping the very top edge of the screen (on the status bar). That "tap the top" trick is timely, too, when a Web site is designed to hide the address bar.
Don't delete. There is a
button at the right end of the address bar, whose purpose is to erase the entire current address so you can type another one. (Tap inside the address bar to make it, and the keyboard, appear.) But the button is for suckers.
Instead, whenever the address bar is open for typing, just type. Forget that there's already a URL there—just start typing. The iPhone is smart enough to figure out that you want to replace that Web address with a new one.
Don't typehttp://www.or.com ...
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