Today The Webmaster’s Place introduces the mobile version of the site! This sleek app-style version of the website is easy to navigate and read, but not stripped of features.
If you have one of the mobile devices we support you will be automatically taken to the mobile version of the site but you will also have the option to view the regular website. (continue reading…)
Today Apple announced that it’s popular iPhone and newly launched iPad will support Adobe Flash starting with units shipped out after October 3rd, 2010. The announcement came month’s after Steve Jobs first began publicly criticizing Abobe for its signature Flash product. Jobs had stated on numerous occasions that Flash caused 99% of crashes on the Mac and that Abobe hadn’t made any significant security or performance upgrades in years.
by Mike McKeown
The world of web design changed when smartphones, especially iPhones entered the picture. Prior to this, screens were tending to get larger, so web designers were designing for bigger monitors. Enter the smartphone, and now we have to design for ever-increasing monitor sizes as well as small little screens that fit in your pocket.
Most standard websites can be navigated fairly easily using an iPhone, but there has been one big setback for web developers. iPhones do not support flash. Sites that are entirely flash show up as just an error message or some alt text on the iPhone.
So does that mean web designers should ditch flash altogether?