Accurately rendering like a Desktop browser != optimized for small devices.
The iPhone Safari browser will accurately render a web page like Engadget, nytimes.com, etc as it is intended for a desktop, but the fact is, you're still viewing on a smaller screen, and at full size, either everything will be very small to read and interact with, or require a lot of scrolling.
iPhone optimized sites mitigate one or more of those issues.
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I thought one of the main strengths of the iPhone was the full HTML browser so you could view the Internet like a regular computer...
Why are so many sites optimizing for a device that supposedly doesn't need it?
Accurately rendering like a Desktop browser != optimized for small devices.
The iPhone Safari browser will accurately render a web page like Engadget, nytimes.com, etc as it is intended for a desktop, but the fact is, you're still viewing on a smaller screen, and at full size, either everything will be very small to read and interact with, or require a lot of scrolling.
iPhone optimized sites mitigate one or more of those issues.