correction: "...and thus bogs down processors and uses up battery charge unnecessarily quickly."
sorry for the typos! Sent from my iPad -- Peter [email protected] On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Peter Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
