I was looking at the new iPhone commercials today, and I noticed that once again, the website chosen for demonstration of Safari on the iPhone was The New York Times’s website. I assumed that Apple chose the NY Times’ website because their pages have a decent amount of content on them with a mix of images as well. For some reason after watching the commercials, I had an urge to go to the NY Times’ website just to see what it’s like. First of all, I am a Safari user, I love Safari. As a web programmer/designer, I really appreciate Safari’s compliance with web standards. But I visited nytimes.com, the website looked like crap in Safari! Below is a picture:

As you can see, we’ve got all sorts of ugly stuff going on here. Content spilling off the right side of the container, broken images for some reason, misaligned columns, and not to mention, a non-fluid type layout.

This is so strange considering the iPhone is supposedly running “real OSX” and a real build of Safari! Here’s a picture of the iPhone displaying the NYTimes’ website:

Even in the ‘long’ mode it looks great!

Is Apple trying to tell us that Safari on the iPhone is actually better than Safari on the mac? What’s going on here!