How Does Your Site Look on the iPad?

Apple has officially confirmed it has sold 1 million iPads. From the announcement: Apple today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.

The success of the iPad and the size of its user base is big enough that web developers are now paying attention to how their websites look on the iPad. But how do you tell how your site looks on the iPad?

A nifty tool called iPad Peek is lets you see how any website will be rendered on the iPad. Click on the top border to switch from landscape to portrait mode. The virtual keyboard and the buttons on the iPad browser are just for show, but the reload button works.

Previewing a website in iPad Peek doesn’t offer the “real” iPad experience, however; for example, Flash works (and it shouldn’t). To get closer to the real deal, you should disable the Flash plugin in your browser and change the user agent string to that of the Apple iPad.