Macs have always been able to use flash. The iOS used by iPads and iPhones does not. This is intentional, because flash is bloatware which is very resource intensive, and thus bigs down processors and uses up battery charge unnecessary quickly.
YouTube and many others have abandoned flash in favor of HTML5. Highly unlikely that apple will kluge up its stuff to be backward compatible now, steve or no steve. But as far as Vinyl's free site goes, he doesn't have the choice. The price is real right, so no quibbles here. But the rest of my suggestions still stand, if they are useful. Sent from my iPhone -- Peter [email protected] On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Tom Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > I was told by a loyal Mac person tonight that the new version of the IPad > should include an emulator that allows MAC users to open Flashplayer files. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Peter Fraser > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:46 PM > To: Antique Phonograph List > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Your Feedback Is Appreciated... > > Ok I got out my Mac and surfed your site. A few impressions: > > 1. You might want to not have the audio automatically start upon navigating > to each page, that is, default to pause rather than play. This prevents the > music from becoming an annoyance as you go back and forth - you keep hearing > the beginning of the song. The song is good if there's enough content on the > page to hold you there for the duration of the tune, but most are quick > click-throughs so far. I like them better on the dedicated music page only. > > 2. The links to external items, such as the YouTube slide show of charles's > stuff, would be better as page embeds than taking you to a new window. Plus > your site's music keeps playing while the new content tries to play its own > audio at the same time. > > 3. Captions on the photos so we can figure out who we're looking at. > > 4. Classified ads page needs simplification - single line listings that are > chronologically arranged, linked to details. The flipping pictures thing > precludes adding listings easily, if that's your intent. > > 5. Homepage has a few "click here" hotspots as well as a row of lozenges > along the top. The home-about us button has no function, and could be > replaced by a link to the music page, which eliminates the need for the > victor ii hotspot. The large needle tin pic hotspot blows up the picture, > which could just be added to the photo gallery. The facebook logo is a bit > too prominent. > > 5. Why access the link to dismuke and a couple of audio files thru the > photo gallery page? > > Nice start. The wix service is new to me and looks like a fun way to play > around with webdesign. Hope this helps. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- Peter > [email protected] > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Peter Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'll take a peek at the actual site when I have time to go fire up a > computer, but for now, here's my suggestion... >> >> It would be nice if you could move it to modern web standards by > implementing html5, so more of us can enjoy it, or to at least provide a > flash-free version. As it is configured now, I can't get past whatever the > initial splash page is serving. Most pro pages at least give a link to > bypass those sorts of initial animations (or whatever it is). Past that, I > don't know how much you rely on flash, but again if you could provide a > means of bypassing it, many of us would be grateful. >> >> Anxious to see what it looks like... >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> -- Peter >> [email protected] >> >> On Oct 11, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I have re-done our website and need some constructive feedback from you > guys/girls... >>> www.carolinaphonosociety.com >>> Also, if you have any events, pictures of collections, events, etc. - > that you would like to have posted on our site, please let me know. >>> Curt >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> http://phono-l.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
