Comments on: Will the iPad break your Museum website?

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:03:13 +0000

I don’t quite get the comments about how accessibility & SEO are improved by apps on an ipad. If you buy a piece of specific hardware, and then install a specific app then you have access. Is an app SEO?

By: SallyFort

SallyFort — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:49:56 +0000

Indeed Jim, why are they built on flash anyway? Really not the best way forward in terms of accessibility, nor the most likely to get picked up in SEO either. *fail*

I wonder if apple will inadverently end up doing good things for access purely by this commerically orientated decision. Interesting

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:04:47 +0000

I am surprised to find some museum websites build completely in Flash, I hope that this gives another reason for these venues to create good, accessible websites.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:06:45 +0000

I think that there have been reasons for a long time before the iPad to migrate your content out of Flash.
Between SEO difficulties and complexities, user experience, p-i-t-a modification of existing/new content, the need for constant plugin updates on the user side, I am often surprised that any content is still walled away inside flash.

That all said, apparently Adobe has something to say about Flash not working on Apple mobile devices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012704222.html

By: Chris O'Donnell

Chris O'Donnell — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:57:50 +0000

Most of the time, Flash elements on museum sites could be easily replicated using JavaScript and CSS, and where video is needed, the HTML5 video element.

Flash can’t even run on a Mac without the fans kicking in, so I can’t see how supporting it on the iPad would be beneficial in the long run.

By: Danny Lee

Danny Lee — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:33 +0000

D’oh, we love Apple so much i don’t think it would affect many decisions in purchasing the iPad.

Such a shame not to acommodate flash.