[big bad easter bunny]

i don’t care for Apple but thanks for the suggestion.

[krb]

Where Apple really leap-frogged over other mobile solutions was with their implementation of Safari. They mimmic a virtual 960 pixel wide (3x the actual resolution of the LCD) off-screen buffer that they render any given web page into. Then they do accelerated bilinear resampling of the off screen buffer onto the LCD and let you zoom in and out and pan around.

That lets you see a nicely almost anti-aliased view of the exact webpage content as envisioned by the developer (nowadays an artist-y person who spent a lot of time figuring out how to present information) but with your fingers lets you go in and out as necessary to make the content look nice on your smaller screen.

It is a brilliant way to help make content that wasn't designed for a 320x480 screen work acceptably on such a screen.