iPad Emulator
August 6th, 2010
Categories: advertising, Hardware, Internet, software
Safari Develop Menu
Do you want to see what an iPad user sees when they look at your website? Well there is a simple way to check it out without buying an iPad on either Windows or Mac:
- Download and install Safari (if you don’t already have it)
- Edit -> Preferences (or Safari -> Preferences on a Mac)
- Go to the Advanced tab
- Check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” option
- Close the preferences window
- A new “Develop” menu option will appear
- Select “User Agent” and then “Mobile Safari 3.2 – iPad”
It isn’t perfect (hard to simulate rotating the device) and you should also disable Flash, but it gives you a rough impression.
be sure to also select “show menu bar” or you will never see it.
It doesn’t work really. I have some really big differences between the really ipad and the “safari ipad” version in some pages.
I think all it does is change the user agent reported to the site. It doesn’t draw the controls like Mobile Safari does, which is what I’m looking for.