Safari on iPhone (iOS 4.3) displays web pages from sites in a top-level .mobi domain differently than sites under .com. While Safari does a lot of work to make websites formatted on the desktop work fine enough on a tiny screen, it seems like it is abandoning this idea for .mobi sites and just displays pixel for pixel like a desktop screen . The viewport setting has no effect.
I am not complaining, just looking for information and possible overrides. We planned to develop a custom .mobi site using XHTML-MP, but still haven’t received it and probably will never be with how smartphones go, so for now we just maintain a regular site in this domain. We understand that this will be unsuitable for use on not-so-smart phones for which .mobi was intended, but it also cannot be used on the iPhone.
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