Just in case there hasn’t been enough talk about the iPad and Flash these past few days, I’ll offer my thoughts, free of charge. Apart from my own personal preferences in technologies, my job remains the same: design beautiful, accessible, usable websites. While I still have to create workarounds for the ever-lingering IE6, most everything else is built around web standards. This insures that the sites I build will look and behave appropriately across different browsers, operating systems, and devices.

A few years ago, I would have opted to build everything in Flash because it averted the cross-browser issues. At that time, Flash was growing rapidly in market penetration, and it displayed content consistently in different browsers. Browser issues solved.

Enter the iPhone. What, no Flash support? Initially, I was quite bummed. However, as time has gone on, and as I’ve come to accept that Apple has no intention of supporting plugin technology on it’s touch devices…