Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio plan to release iPad optimized web sites once the device comes out next month. Both sites will automatically detect when web surfers arrive via iPad and display the optimized content. The difference? No flash content. NPR plans to replace the current flash audio players with HTML 5 based players instead. Unlike NPR, WSJ will only serve up a flash free front page. If the user digs deeper into the site, they will encounter the soon to be infamous “blue box”, the lego symbol that displays when flash content isn’t supported. HTML 5 was developed to reduce the use of proprietary plug-ins like Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX. Although the technology is still nascent and not yet widely supported, sites like Chrome Experiments have been showcasing some incredible creative experiments that can be achieved with the new technology. Whether this is the start of a new trend is still to be determined, but devices like the iPad could accelerate the adoption rate for HTML 5. (nytimes)
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WIRED magazine is also doing it, and it seems pretty amazing.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1813626064?bctid=66775419001