livebooks news

Frederick Van Johnson, of This Week in Photo sat down with former liveBooks Chief Marketing Officer, John Philpin, to discuss the future  of Flash and how they are dealing with Flash versus html 5 on their websites for photographers.

Photographers are now, moreso than ever, faced with the dilemma of how to have the largest number of people view their work; i.e. if you are on an iPad and the website is flash-laden, you won’t see  anything at all. Philpin, however, believes the most important thing is a consistent and premiere presentation, which Flash offers. liveBooks’ sites are all Flash-based with html shadow sites. Now there is automatic software that detects if an iPhone or iPad arrives at a liveBooks website which redirects to an iPhone or iPad specific experience. The images are scaled up or down depending on the size of the device.

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Rob Galbraith of the blog Rob Galbraith Digital Photography Insights covered liveBooks’ iPhone and iPad compatibility release. Come May, a liveBooks service will automatically detect if one of Apple’s mobile devices is browsing a photographer’s liveBooks website and redirect the viewer away from a Flash-based gallery to an HTML version that includes the ability to navigate using a swipe gesture. The size of photos that appear will be dictated by whether it’s the smaller iPhone or larger iPad doing the surfing.

Read the full article here.

Photo District News (PDN), an award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer, wrote an article on liveBooks’ updated service for iPhone and iPad compatibility. The update, called liveBooks Version 5.9, will let web browsers on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch view liveBooks’ Flash-based sites. Since those mobile devices from Apple do not support Flash, photographers who’ve used liveBooks’ portfolio sites either couldn’t show off their work on iPhones, iPads etc., or have had to specifically customize their websites to do so.

Read the full article here.