Websites that look good on an iPhone

Sunday, July 01, 2007 by Dave Winer.

Scott Mace sent some advice that worked, that made it so that my example page looks good in Safari on an iPhone without the user having to adjust the resolution to read the text. If you try opening this page on the iPhone, you'll see it now reads quite well. 

If you don't have an iPhone, here's a screen shot.  

The trick is to add a <meta> element to the page: 

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320"> 

If you view source on the nytimesriver, you'll see that's how it works.  

Here's a thread where this is discussed.