We Reprogrammed Our Site for the iPhone

You remember a while back I discussed how the real apple tax is the lack of Flash support from Apple (News - Alert)? I further explained how virtually all websites with video have to create duplicate video formats for their content - Flash for most devices and H.264 for iPhones. It gets more complicated for a site like TMCnet which has a Flash-based media player which scrolls through article graphics when you visit the site. These graphics didn't show up at all on the iPhone (News - Alert) and if we wanted anyone to see them on the world's fastest-growing smartphone platform we would be forced to reprogram the site.

Check out the red arrow for what I mean

Well we reprogrammed the site using jQuery/JavaScript and this allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to now see the feature graphics of the latest articles as TMC (News - Alert) editors and designers intended. If you have any problems seeing the player on any devices/browsers please email our webmaster.

There is a wrinkle - my web team is also building some device-dependent mobile sites and at the moment, these mobile Safari browsers get redirected to a mobile site which is in the process of being  be improved.

To bypass being redirected to our mobile site just go to this URL - www.tmcnet.com/a.htm. The highlighted part is all you really need to remember. If you want the iPhone specific site without graphics and with rapid performance be sure to go t i.tmcnet.com and if you want our site dedicated to iPhone news not the device, go to iphone.tmcnet.com.

Tags: adobe, apple, apple tax, design, flash, h.264, iphone, iphone news, ipod touch, javascript, jquery, safari, tmc

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