If what you changed is a web app, at some point you have to look at it. Every phone browser shows you the phone layout, which is exactly the layout you are usually not trying to check — so this is the moment people give up and wait until they are back at the desk.
Ripul’s browser does not do that. It lays pages out at a real desktop viewport, and WebKit scales the finished layout down to fit your screen, so you land on the whole page at once and pinch into the part you care about.
Pick a screen size
The Screen Size menu offers Responsive — the ordinary phone behaviour — alongside Tablet, Tablet Landscape, Laptop, Desktop at 1440 by 900, and Large Desktop at 1920 by 1200. There is a Match Phone option and a custom size too. These are not a zoom level: at Desktop, the page is genuinely being rendered into a 1440-pixel-wide viewport, so it takes the same code path a desktop visitor would.
A pointer, not a fingertip
Desktop web apps assume a mouse, and a lot of their interface only appears when one is present. The browser gives you a real pointer you can move around the page, so hover states fire the way they would on a desktop and menus that open on hover actually open.
- The cursor changes shape from the page’s own computed CSS cursor — so a splitter tells you where its grab area starts, rather than leaving you guessing.
- Hover and click arrive as trusted browser events, so pages cannot tell the difference between this and a mouse.
- Tabs, bookmarks and history work the way you expect, because it is a real browser rather than a preview pane.