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How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash)
The Internet's already starting to look different, says Gizmodo, in a piece of interest not only to everyone with an iPad floating around the UPS system, but also those of us thinking about some other kind of tablet in the medium-term future. As they put it, "The iPad doesn't run Flash. If your website uses Flash, it won't play well on the iPad. Turns out, a lot of people want their sites to look pretty on the iPad."
And an anonymous reader adds this snippet from Webmonkey: "In anticipation of Saturday's release of the iPad — which doesn't run Flash — Apple has published a list of 'iPad Ready' websites. The sites are all big league sluggers like CNN, The New York Times, People Magazine and MLB.com. Surprisingly, there are also a few video-heavy sites in the mix (Vimeo, Flickr, and TED) which would traditionally rely on Flash Player for video playback."
Wouldn't the iPad buyers be more like johns than hookers? Five-diamond girlfriend experience...
I am scientifically inaccurate.
*Looks closer* Oh yeah! Some of the pixels.... no wait that's just a bit of dust.
"we've got trenchcoats and bad attitudes" - John Constantine, HellBlazer
The first thing I did to make my site more iPad-friendly was to use nothing but different shades of pink. The green I used before is gone, along with the black. It's all pink.
The second thing I did was put penises all over the place. My site is actually about mobile homes, but erect penises are what really attract the iPad crowd.
The third thing I did was use words like "fabulous" and "super duper" all over the place.
The fourth thing I did was replace all 's's with 'th'. So now my site has text like, "This is the motht fabuloth mobile home you'll thee on the market today!"
The fifth thing I did was made my site navigable with nothing more than a flick of the wrist.
I'm sure with these changes that my site will become the premiere site for iPad-using mobile home enthusiasts.
Just like my wife.
Utilizing the synergization of benchmark e-solutions to pre-workaround action items!
nope. They will release iPad nano, which will be a rebranded re-release of iPod Touch.
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The badger dance is just a homage to one of da Vinci's early works, lighten up Francis!
It will be a return to the golden age of the animated GIF!
Dark Reflection
The iPad is probably going to fade into obscurity.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Jobs and Apple wouldn't be where they are today if they waited around for you to spread your legs. They have a history of throwing the consumer on the ground and mounting them while the consumer cries "No! Please! Not there! I've never done that before! I can't!... Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes! More! Please! More! Oh God! Yes! I never knew it could be so good!"
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
The portable devices for quick use already exist, and they are way better than the iPad...
*YAWN*
Sorry. You were saying something about it having less space than a Nomad and how lame it was. Well, that's what I heard, at least...
And the auto-loading audio. Of course, good luck getting them to sync. Also, animated gifs above a certain size don't open past the first frame on iPhoneOS Safari.
You probably never had a 486-120. For its time, it was a SCREAMER :-)
No joke. I had to live in an apartment next door to one.
If your old Pentium 100 computer is still working you're using that as your sole computer then, right?
Jobs and Apple wouldn't be where they are today if they waited around for you to spread your legs. They have a history of throwing the consumer on the ground and mounting them while the consumer cries "No! Please! Not there! I've never done that before! I can't!... Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes! More! Please! More! Oh God! Yes! I never knew it could be so good!"
You've clearly given this some thought.
Bow-ties are cool.
Stupid dancing badgers almost ate my soul. Pretty colors... they dance. But why do they dance? What are they going to do next? Mushroom? It's red. What is it doing? Oh... badgers... how you torment me so.
SNAKE!
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
The weakness of Flash is that it's like Java. You write once and the content will suck anywhere with a Flash plugin.
He who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
The iPad is not the iPod... the iPad doesn't really bring anything new to the table. It will fade into obscurity with all of the other ebook readers just like Palm PDAs did.
I agree. No Flash, and it holds less than most netbooks. As Apple inventions go, it's pretty lame.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Apple is refined and locked down revolution for the masses.
The revolution will not be webcast in Flash.
The iPad is probably going to fade into obscurity.
Less space than the Library of Congress. No neural connections. Lame.