Chapter7
Safari Tour
You get onto the Web by tapping the Safari icon on the Homescreen (below,
left); the very first time you do this, a blank browser window appears (below,
right). As noted in the last chapter, the Web on the iPhone can be either
speedy and satisfying (when you're in a Wi-Fi hotspot) or slow and excruciat-
ing (when you're on AT&T's cellular network). Even so, some Web is usually
better than no Web at all.
Safari has most of the features of a desktop Web browser: bookmarks, auto-
complete (for Web addresses), bookmarks, cookies, a pop-up ad blocker,
and soon. (It's missing niceties like password memorization and streaming
music.)
Here's a quick tour of the main screen elements, starting from the upperleft:
You don't have to wait for a Webpage toload entirely.You can zoom in, scroll,and
begin reading the tex teve nwhen only part of the page has appeared.