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Re: reading the same documentation on iPad as on Mac?
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Re: reading the same documentation on iPad as on Mac?


  • Subject: Re: reading the same documentation on iPad as on Mac?
  • From: Izidor Jerebic <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:04:05 +0200

It did not annoy me enough until today, so I did not file a bug report. But now it's too much.

rdar://9655876.

izidor

P.S. It seems the page does detection using JavaScript, so proxy might not help. Anyway, this could be fixed by Apple by including simple link "View as non-mobile site" someplace as all well-behaving "optimized" websites do.

On 22.6.2011, at 18:39, Jens Alfke wrote:

>
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Izidor Jerebic wrote:
>
>> I guess I could build my own browser from customized WebKit sources and detect what they are using for this and avoid it, but I don't think I have the time for this.
>
> [Off-topic] You could build that for your own use, but you can’t ship a browser like that because Apple won’t let you include your own JavaScript interpreter, or link against the private JavaScriptCore framework. :(
>
> It ought to be possible to rig up an HTTP proxy that would strip out whatever it is in the request that identifies the browser as an iPad (although if it’s not the User-Agent: header, I can’t imagine what else it would be.)
>
> Has anyone filed a Radar to tell Apple to just fix the damn website?
>
> —Jens

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