So I picked up the iPad a few days ago because we’re working on some updates that will convert our MilkPress Themes to an iPad friendly version, as well as convert the flash into all html. On top of that we’re going to build in some other cool features so we needed the iPad to make sure it worked. Love those “work purchases.” 
In playing around I’ve noticed some things that I wanted to share. First, I definitely think you should create a +Site JUST for the iPad. The reason being is that the images should have different resolutions so they don’t look like crud on the iPad. The resolution of the iPad is 1024 x 768. So on your header for your html site, it needs to be 1024px wide (but on the stage in Showit at it’s current size). Second reason is that you want to make those buttons bigger for fingers, and maybe introduce another swipe gallery from HTML (notice the pt 1 of ?…). This is all so new so we’re learning as we go.
Another big reason that you should create a +Site JUST for the iPad will be video. For the time being, if you want a quick way to get video playing on your iPad site you can copy and paste the embed codes from youtube into your “page html”. The iPad will automatically recognize that it’s a YouTube video and show the HTML5 version of the player. The neat thing about this is that it’s integrated with the look and feel of the iPads OS down to the button glow. The downside of course is the branding issue; it’s a YouTube video. We do imagine putting in an open sourced video player, but the ones that I’ve seen so far are….ehh. The one we’re interested in hasn’t been released yet. This is just the beginning though. If there’s a world of iPad users surfing the net with no where to go, you might as well embrace them and build a site just for them. All with Showit…..all included. How sick is that?!
For Android users I recommend you start building a flash website right now and tailor it to them (ours is in the works). Since flash has already landed on the Nexus One and is currently Droid bound let’s serve them a mobile flash website. The difference here is the scale, or size of the site. You want GINORMOUS buttons and text so that it appears, correctly to scale, on a device thats 320×480 in resolution. The videos you currently have in your Showit website will work just fine (and is ultimately the reason I think they don’t work right now within Showit mobile) because they are already flash.
Anyhow there’s still a ton of work and research to be done but I wanted to post this up so you guys can know what we know. Have a super safe and fun Memorial Day weekend!
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