You’ve just rewritten History.
Tapping Links You’d be surprised at the number of iPhone newbies who stare dumbly at the screen, awestruck at the beauty of full-blown Web pages—but utterly baffled as to how to click links. The answer: Tap with your finger. Here’s the fourth and final method of navigating the Web: tapping links on the screen, much the way you’d click them if you had a mouse. As you know from desktop-computer browsing, not all links are blue and underlined. Sometimes, in fact, they’re graphics. The only difference is that on the iPhone, not all links take you to other Web pages. If you tap an email address, it opens up the iPhone’s Mail program (Chapter 11) and creates a preaddressed outgoing message. If you tap a phone number you find online, the iPhone calls it for you. There’s even such a thing as a map link, which opens the Google Maps program (page 209). Each of these links, in other words, takes you out of Safari. If you want to return to your Web browsing, then you have return to the Home screen and tap Safari. The page you had open is still there, waiting. 266
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