Your Flash Website is Invisible on the iPad

Your Flash website will not work on the iPad.

There is much controversy about Flash websites displaying on the iPad. If the iPad does not support Flash, wedding portfolio websites will not be viewable on an iPad.

Apple’s freshly announced iPad is a lot of things to a lot of people, but it appears that it’s not going to be the device that proves the appropriateness of Adobe Flash for enjoying rich media device on a mobile device. Better luck next time, Adobe! – engadget.com

While Flash is present on nearly every Apple desktop and laptop computer, the company decided that Flash would not be used on the iPhone. Apple has argued that the Flash technology is too slow and unduly taxes laptops and netbooks. The company also has concerns over Flash’s vulnerability to viruses and other malware, as well as the way Flash-based content can voraciously consume battery life. – nytimes.com

Apple believes Flash is responsible for at least one-third of all the crashes on the Mac OS. At an all-hands meeting with Apple’s employees last week, Jobs reportedly unloaded on Adobe, which owns Flash, calling the company lazy and its software ridiculously buggy. The iPad doesn’t play Flash because soon no one will be using Flash, he allegedly declared. – slate.com

The iPad will change the future of media delivery in the future. Even if the iPad is not a success, the future of media delivery requires successful optimization and speed. With this in mind, I’m converting all of my web content from Flash to other web technologies that are optimized for speed, ease of use, and aesthetic beauty.

What are you doing to plan for the future of media delivery?