Bites of Apple » SDK http://www.bitesofapple.com Fruitful news for small business Apple users. By Ron Seybold Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:16:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Early peek: A Web browser for iPad http://www.bitesofapple.com/2010/02/21/early-peek-a-web-browser-for-ipad/ http://www.bitesofapple.com/2010/02/21/early-peek-a-web-browser-for-ipad/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:18:13 +0000 Ron Seybold http://www.bitesofapple.com/?p=432 Developers now have the iPad software development toolkit, so the behavior of the iPad interface is being shared via YouTube videos. Nobody can demonstrate the multitouch gestures yet — these simulations use a mouse to mimic the hand touch interface. If you’ve used the browser in the iPhone, there are few new wrinkles here. Best improvement is a keyboard closer to full-size. This might be the best use of the iPad’s keyboard that we’ve yet seen. (The link below is Flash, so again, apologies to the iPhone and iPod Touch users out there.)

In short, the iPad’s browser will be Safari and probably nothing else, since Apple wants to control this aspect of the iPad experience. But this Safari demo shows how the iPad can be a powerful research tool for gathering information from those Web business resources which don’t have a dedicated iPad app yet. The advantage to using this rather than a MacBook lies in the ability to share your results by just passing the iPad around — something cumbersome with a laptop, or even a netbook.

(Above video courtesy of appadvice.com.)

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