NPR, WSJ prep Flash-free sites for iPad

Both National Public Radio and the Wall Street Journal are preparing Flash-free iPad sites in time for the device's April 3rd debut.

MediaMemo cites a blog post over at NPR, letting us know that NPR fans can either download an updated app for NPR (once the iPad ships and the app is ready), or visit an iPad-optimized version of NPR.org that contains no Flash. The Wall Street Journal is also going with a Flash-free site, although visitors can expect to hunt through the site and find some pages which still have Flash.

Having non-Flash sites exist alongside their Flash siblings will probably be the solution for many publications in the near future. However, we know that Steve Jobs hopes that Flash will go the way of the PowerPC and the floppy disk, and developers will turn to alternatives such as HTML5.

[Via MacDailyNews]

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tommy_b

IE6 is dead. With Google dropping support, it's about time to put the browser that can't even handle transparency in its grave.

March 20 2010 at 6:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Odineye

Well that didn't take long...

March 17 2010 at 11:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

Yay!
I can't wait for the sites to be available, and I'm hoping it's the beginning for the end for dear ole flash.

March 17 2010 at 2:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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cjschrissouth

Flash is awesome. Ill ditch flash on my website when there is a Flash CS4 for HTML5. Something that is user friendly. Maybe apple should change, because flash isnt going away for a while (do you know how many people have ie6 still)

March 17 2010 at 2:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply