There is a lot of hoopla going around the announcement of the Apple iPad. I admit that I've been hooked as well, and the complaints that it's nothing more than a "giant iPod touch" suit me just fine. That's not a complaint in my book, that's a benefit. But all swooning aside, I am wondering how the iPad will affect my work as a designer. If you had asked me last December what I thought was going to change in 2010, I would have said that Flash was going to get a lot bigger as more sites started using it for games and features. But then the iPad came out and Apple is beginning to make it fairly clear that Adobe Flash is not going to be present on their devices. It's not available on the iPhone or iPod touch, and it apparently won't be on the iPad either. Apple is instead focusing on HTML5 as a way to deliver video an other content that Flash delivers a lot of now. Is this going to change how you build your websites? Are you going to focus more on HTML5 and less on Flash now that the iPad may be a game changer? I know it really depends upon the device itself, but what do you think right now?

IPad image Courtesy of Apple.

Poll: With the coming of the iPad, are you going to focus more on HTML5 than Flash? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 08:34:36.

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