Make Flash Sites iPhone & iPad Friendly
Aug
4
2010
An excellent blog post detailing ways to make your Flash site user–friendly on the iPhone and iPad (or in fact any other device devoid of the Flash plugin).
As an SEO I don’t recommend building Flash sites in the first place. But if you must—aim to make it play nicely by following the steps highlighted in the blog post:
- Use SWFObject and make use of the alternative content feature
- Develop a simplified HTML version of your site for mobile devices
- Use JavaScript to detect mobile devices and automatically forward to mobile version of site
- Set viewport to width of iPhone
- Make the iPhone stop resizing text on rotation
- Create an iPhone home screen icon
- Use Helvetica!
Read the article here
