iPad Peek – Check How Your Website Looks On The iPad

It is important for bloggers and webmasters to check how their website looks on any device. I’ve already seen how my blog looks on an iPhone even though I don’t have one. How? I just used iPhone 3G Tester, an online website test emulator with flip. In addition, if you want to check your website on the iPad, the latest gadget from Mac, you can use another web-based emulator called iPad Peek.

iPad Peek is a really cool tool not just for bloggers or webmasters but for the normal PC users as well! It lets you see how a website or blog will be rendered on the iPad. You can switch from landscape to portrait mode by just clicking the top border.

Let’s see how my website looks like when viewed on the iPad using iPad Peek:

Landscape Mode

Portrait Mode

You’ve probably noticed that iPad Peek also shows the virtual keyboard but actually, you can’t use it as well as the back/forward, and bookmark buttons; the virtual keyboard and the other buttons are just for show. However, the reload button in the address bar works.

iPad Peek is probably the best web-based emulator for iPad, however, it doesn’t offer 100% or real iPad experience. Why? Because Flash works in iPad Peek but the real iPad doesn’t support Flash. So if you want to get closer to the real deal, you should be able to disable Flash plug-in in your web browser and change the user agent string to that of the Apple iPad.

If you’re using Firefox, Mashable has an easy instruction for that:

Type “about:config” in the address bar, click the right mouse button, select New – String, and name it “general.useragent.override”. Then enter the value “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/7B334b Safari (Safari)/531.21.10?.

BTW, before I end this post, maybe a lot of you are wondering or curious how many iPads were already sold as of this moment. Actually, Chitika Labs has just created a tool called “iPad stats” where you can check the estimated number of iPads sold.

* This screenshot was taken on April 14, 2010 at around 11:35 am (time in the Philippines).

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