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When I visit a Web page via the iPad’s browser, does it default to the mobile version of the site if there is one?

April 26, 2017browser Default ipad mobile site version visit web page

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When I visit a Web page via the iPad’s browser, does it default to the mobile version of the site if there is one?

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It depends on how the iPad’s browser describes itself when connecting to a Web server. When we visited macworld.com with our iPad, it loaded the full version of the site, not the special iPhone version. But some other sites we visit did serve up their iPhone versions. It’s up to each site to decide where it wants to send iPad traffic. For those in the know, here’s what the iPad reports itself as to Web servers: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10.