Browsing the web on the Apple iPad: 15 screenshots of how most common websites will look on your iPad

The New York Times on the iPad

It is now officially confirmed by Apple, the iPad will be in store by April 3rd in the US and shortly after in some other countries. As Steve Jobs himself emphasized during his January 27 keynote, the iPad is aimed to be the perfect device to, among others, surf the web from your living room couch. We now know that the iPad will not support flash, which might actually impact your browsing experience on some flash intensive websites. Other websites may actually detect the iPad as an iPhone (most WordPress blogs currently do) and present you with a page meant for a 3″ screen. But for most sites I tested, the iPad truly looked like the perfect internet tablet we have been waiting for.

If you can’t wait for another month and if you are dying to see what your favorite websites will look like on the iPad, read more and take a look at 15 screenshots taken from the iPad simulator that Apple was kind enough to provide iPhone developers with (I actually hope that I am not breaching the Apple SDK NDA by publishing these screenshots, after all, I am only revealing what Safari looks like on the iPad, which Apple already did to the whole world on Jan 26).

: MacRumors on the iPad

: iPad Safari: entering a URL

: The New York Times on the iPad

: Mashable on the iPad

: Presse-Citron on the iPad

: eBay on the iPad

: Amazon on the iPad

: Techcrunch on the iPad

: MSN on the iPad

: Standard Twitter page on the iPad

: Twitter on the iPad

: Google on the iPad

: Facebook on the iPad

: Gmail on the iPad

: Seesmic Web on the iPad

As you may notice by yourself when checking each of the screenshots above, and with the exception of Flash support, most websites I tested seem to be “iPad ready” with the exception of Mashable and Twitter which presented me the downgraded mobile version of their site. Am sure these two will tweak the necessary user-agent settings to address the issue before April 3rd.

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