With all the (technical) media interest in the iPhone I decided it was worth taking a look at the iPod Touch to test out its new web browsing features. Other handheld devices and mobile phones have gone down the route of reducing a web page to fit the restricted environment of the screen, as can be seen in the screenshots for Internet Explorer Mobile. However there seems to be a trend for this paradigm of using a normal page but zooming in & out and scrolling around with your fingers. For example the new mobile operating system that Google have developed (Android) has similar features, as can be seen in this demonstration.

As I’ve been testing it out I have been struck by the similarities with the screen magnifier demonstration that I posted about before.…