Re: Website Issues

[andi rivarola <0b5865f51@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Bob, producing an emag version of IRISES would be great.
I've been hearing the same complaint -- that it's not mobile friendly --
for years.

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Andi Rivarola

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Bob Seaman (KCIS) <
c1738baf1@rewrite.aisboard.org> wrote:

> Actually, I believe that there is an option for producing an eMag version
> for mobile devices. I'll check into it.
>
> Bob Seaman
> AIS Region 13 RVP
> 7051 S 126th St
> Seattle, WA 98178-4337
> 206-235-7358
> kcisbob@leonineiris.com
> www.aisregion13.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
> On Behalf Of Howie Dash
> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 8:19 AM
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Website Issues
>
> John,
>
> I appreciate your point.  I just wish there was a way for registered, paid
> users to get this content via mobile devices.
>
> Howie Dash
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jones <100h@rewrite.aisboard.org>
> To: aisdiscuss <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
> Sent: Wed, Jun 1, 2016 11:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Website Issues
>
>
> HI Howie,
>
> The whole point of a PDF is that it is eminently portable, downloadable,
> forwardable, printable.
>
> That is not what you want to do with a subscription service that members
> pay
> a fee to have access and only members can view the document. We can
> certainly make back issues of the Bulletin into PDFs after a certain amount
> of time (a year or more) and put them in a free part of the website, but up
> to that point the online document is intended to be restricted to
> subscribers only.
>
>
> John
> __________________
> John and Joanne Jones
> Registrar-Recorders, American Iris Society <a
> href="mailto:aisregistrar@irises.org";>aisregistrar@irises.org</a>
>
> Director, American Iris Society
>
> 35572 Linda Drive
> Fremont, CA 94536
>
>
>
>
>
> > On May 31, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Howie Dash <<a
> href="mailto:fd6bd32d1@rewrite.aisboard.org";>
> fd6bd32d1@rewrite.aisboard.org<
> /a>> wrote:
> >
> > I joined as an electronic member so that I could visit both the Iris
> registration page and be able to read Irises online.  However, when on the
> road I use a mobile device such as an iPad rather than a laptop to do my
> work.
> >
> > I was surprised when I tried to read Irises that I needed Adobe Flash
> rather than Adobe Reader to read the Iris Bulletin.  I called my niece's
> husband who is a commercial programmer to ask if there was a version of
> Adobe Flash that I could put on my iPad.  He told me that Flash was not
> supported on any mobile devices, whether Apple or Android.
> >
> > I appreciate all the work that was required to scan in all those Irises
> Bulletins and understand that AIS doesn't have the money to redo the
> website, but was wondering if any future Bulletins could be as scanned in
> as
> PDF instead of Flash.  As time goes on more and more of us are using mobile
> devices rather than computers and would like to be able to read this
> content.
> >
> > Is there a reason why Flash is used instead of PDF?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Howie Dash
> >
> >
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*Andi Rivarola*

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