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Great hardware, but Safari still needs room to breathe.

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Spending $1,999 on a foldable and then squinting at a crammed web page isn’t something that anyone wants.

Apple’s Safari team said Friday it is exploring a way for websites to use more of the iPhone Duo’s outer display. Right now, a column of Safari controls swallows a chunk of the screen.

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Why does Safari feel so cramped on the outer screen?

The answer is simple: Safari controls sit on the right, and web pages can’t draw behind them. Apple moved them there to save vertical space, but it costs width.

That leaves pages about 382 CSS pixels wide in portrait, for anyone well-versed in the units web designers use. Safari tints the leftover strip to match the web page, but that looks like wasted space to me.

You might wonder why Apple doesn’t let pages stretch underneath.…