You can customise the forum view to look however you want. There is a site-specific CSS Safari extension:
http://code.grid.in.th/
Once installed, you can right-click a page, choose 'Manage User CSS' and then fill in the details with the domain being
http://forums.appleinsider.com*
You can try the following CSS code for example:
#sidebar{
display:none;
}
#header-area{
height:50px !important;
overflow:hidden !important;
max-height:50px !important;
min-height:50px !important;
}
.ad{
display:none !important;
}
.forum-post-tools{
margin-top:0px !important;
}
.sig_buffer{
height:50px;
}
#forum-navbar-top{
display:none !important;
}
.post-sig{
padding-left:10px !important;
padding-right:10px !important;
}
.logo{
position:absolute;
top:-55px;
}
#footer-content{
display:none;
}
#forum-navbar-btm{
display:none;
}
Make sure the CSS filter is enabled, hit save and reload the forum page. This sort of thing should be possible on iOS too using a bookmarklet that appends CSS to the page but you probably have to execute that for every page you visit.
At least the BBCode editor lets you post on iOS and you can also set the forum options to keep the thread view at a fixed width so on the iPad, you just zoom into the left.
