Apple Wants to Fix Safari's Cramped Layout on iPhone Duo
Apple is exploring ways to optimize the Safari browser layout for the iPhone Duo to better utilize the outer display. The company is balancing the need for more screen real estate with the risk of obscuring website content.
Why it matters
As foldable and dual-screen devices become more common, browser developers must innovate to ensure web compatibility and user experience on non-standard screen form factors.
Apple is considering changes to Safari on the iPhone Duo that would give websites access to more of the outer display, although the company has yet to settle on an approach.
The challenge is allowing pages to occupy the area beneath Safari's side-mounted controls without making parts of a website inaccessible. In an Friday, October 23 WebKit post , Apple's Jen Simmons explained that an existing web setting could enable this, but Apple's research suggests many sites would not handle it correctly.
That setting, viewport-fit="cover", allows a webpage to expand into areas that would otherwise be reserved. Website developers must then leave enough space around important content to prevent it from being covered by the interface. According to Simmons, many sites fail to make those allowances on every edge.
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