title: List of known "Safari on iPad" differences over "Desktop Safari"
body: <p>In recently testing a web application on Windows/Mac desktop browsers - and then on an iPad I noticed various differences in Safari that I wasn't expecting. even though the version # is the same.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to compose a list of those differences (for myself and others) to have as a developer reference.</p>
  
  <p><strong>e.g. in Safari on the iPad</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>iPad Safari takes full control of Select list/option styling</li>
  <li>iPad opens the onscreen keyboard when an input element receives focus, thus inline floating calendar widgets (and the like) may not work as expected (or need to be altered)</li>
  <li>iPad Safari doesn't support <code>position:fixed</code> like desktop Safari &lt; iOS 5</li>
  <li>iPad Safari (similar to iPhone/iPodTouch Safari) automatically hyperlinks 10 digit numbers to offer phone #/contact options</li>
  <li>iPad Safari <code>prompt('long message...','default');</code> shows only 1 line of the message (though it does provide scrolling of the message</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I've heard from others that certain JavaScript doesn't work, etc. etc. but I have yet to fully test it thus I'd be grateful for any discoveries that you may have encountered.</p>