You may be a webmaster or blogger who does not have iPad, iPhone touch or a Mac but need to have a preview of your website how it will appear in those gadgets after installing some plugin (Like WordPress does provides such plugins) or just a curious geek.
Yes, you can have a preview of any webpage as it will appear or rendered by iPad, iphone touch or a Mac from Windows 7. Just follow this tutorial.
You can test; this website have completely different looks in when viewed on an PC browser, Nokia Symbian devices, iPhone touch, iPad. In iPad, iPhone touch; it supports full touch support too.
We can not make your Windows 7 PC a touch device, but can guide you to show an easy way to have a look how any webpage will look in iPhone touch, iPad or a Mac.
You simply need to download a browser : Safari for Windows operating system. Here is the official download link from Apple.
After you download and install Safari, you will get this menu bar (if not visible or auto-hidden; make it visible by pressing f10 button from keyboard.) :
Click Edit (as shown above) and then Preferences :
A Window will open, go to Advanced tab, then tick the option saying ” Show develop menu in menu bar ” :
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Develop option will appear now on the menu bar in Safari, click Develop, then User Agent and then select from the list as you wish :
For example, we have selected the page to be rendered as iPod touch; and the page appears as it will be when viewed from iPod touch:
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The above only opens the page in the same size window, not in a smaller / ipad etc window.
Things has been changed with time. Many good tools are available now, like our tool : http://thecustomizewindows.com/responsive/