iPhone Browser Simulator

i’m making some iPhone WAP designs and needed to see how they’d look without actually buying an iPhone (another one, that is). i’m using the user agent of the iPhone to switch the layout designs.there’s iPhoney for the Mac, but i got moved to a PC recently, so it’s a little trickier. there’s iPhonetester.com, but it passes my firefox user agent and the site won’t switch. so here’s the workaround:


  • open Firefox

  • install this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

  • add this user agent: iPhone, User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en), App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko), App Version: Version/3.0, Platform: Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3

  • switch to this user agent, and view your website (either in Firefox to view full screen, or browser to iPhonetester.com to view in a iPhone mask)

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