Your website & iPad

[revjvegas]

So....

Now that the iPad has been out for a while, what is everyone's thoughts on the iPad and if your website being viewable on the device is of a concern to you.

If your site is flash, it won't work obviously, so what are you going to do? Anything? Nothing?

[brad]

I was never a fan of flash, but had a flash slideshow on the home page at one point.

The first time I saw someone pull out their iPhone to look at my website while I was talking to them, I realized that was a bad choice and replaced it with a Javascript slideshow. That was months ago.

Flash is Evil.

[ukneeq]

Yea, I have never been a fan of flash either. I think it has it's places but I think you can easily do everything with a more open standard. I'm in the process of redoing my site and will use javascript or ajax for anything that might be more complicated.

[Flea77]

I agree, I think it is foolish to create your website using something that is going to potentially exclude millions of customers. If someone wants to view my site on an iPhone or iPad, that is a potential sale I am not about to turn down.

Allan

[Zack Davis]

No real need to redesign an entire site though no matter if you like or dislike flash. Having a mobile version of your site that is designed to load faster on a smart phone will keep people on your site longer as well. Not to mention you can design your mobile site to gear toward people calling you since they're holding a phone in their hand. :)

[janetg]

i put in some code that re-directs anyone on a safari browser to an html site. i need to finish that though, works great

[a2rob]

My site as,well as other photographers sites I have visited will "time out" before all of the site has loaded with 3G connection on the iPad.

[JohnT]

I guess I'm old school because I still like plain-vanilla HTML sites, which mine is. A touch of JS or DHTML is fine with me, but I find most Flash-based sites just plain annoying.

[zeroendless]

Originally Posted by janetg

i put in some code that re-directs anyone on a safari browser to an html site. i need to finish that though, works great

That probably not the right way to do as it would affect any devices with safari agent. You should detect just iPad and iPhone user agent.

[andyz]

Is there standard code for that?

[zeroendless]

Many ways to detect user agent, client or server end and we use the latter, PHP to parse HTML 5 video standard instead of flash media player for movie playback. Screw Apple for more works to do!

Do a search on google like "detect ipad", see which is more suitable for you.

[revjvegas]

Originally Posted by andyz

Is there standard code for that?

Yeah, google search as mentioned and you'll find various methods, one being to query the agent index and use a conditional expression to point the user to an alt page if the condition is met.

There are many methods in which to skin this proverbial cat.

I was mainly curious to see what people's take was on this as it seemed to me that a large number of people tend to favor the 'flash' based sites instead of just using standard html with some js thrown in or php or whatever.

[hotshot38]

HTML 5

WTF is HTML5 (Infographic)

[swanny338]

I have both and it automatically knows which to show... How, I have no idea... Thankyou livebooks.

[ukneeq]

Originally Posted by zeroendless

Many ways to detect user agent, client or server end and we use the latter, PHP to parse HTML 5 video standard instead of flash media player for movie playback. Screw Apple for more works to do!

Do a search on google like "detect ipad", see which is more suitable for you.

If you are already going to build an HTML5 version why not just have one site instead of splitting it up? I don't like checking for what the user is using because it means you have to either update 2 sets of pages or always make sure your check is valid. Unless you are using flash for something other than just movie playback I would just stick with the open standard version of html 5.