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Question

Loading a website stored on an iPad.

Jun 16, 2012 6:58AM PDT

Hi everyone,

I'm working on building a virtual tour for a museum and have hit a bit of a roadblock. We basically want an .HTML virtual tour, but the catch is we want the files for this to live on the iPad's hard drive since our wireless network isn't reliable. What's the best way to set this up? I can transfer the files over easily, but is it worth investing in a file manager app. to keep them organized?

Thank you much!

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Let's be honest.
Jun 16, 2012 7:11AM PDT

You need an app. If you do this with the stock browser folk will exit the browser and discover the pad is just like any pad and you will lose pads shortly.

Your developer would develop the app to not allow an exit and make it look locked down.

Even I'm doing iPxd apps. There are probably thousands that will help you if you put it out for quote. My fee might be pretty cheap if I'm allowed to put my small ad there.
Bob

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Unfortunately, not an option.
Jun 16, 2012 8:37AM PDT

We looked into that, but it's not in the budget. A browser-based tour in HTML is, unfortunately, the best we can do at this time.

FWIW, we're not giving iPad's out to visitors. They're going to be a tool for our docents to better serve our guests by providing a guided tour experience to visitors who can't take the stairs to the second floor. As such, it should never be out of our staff members' hands.

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Then HTML on the pad is fine.
Jun 16, 2012 10:06AM PDT

As they write "just do it."

I might be guessing here. Maybe you are asking because you don't have an iPad to try this?

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I have the iPad
Jun 16, 2012 10:20PM PDT

I'm asking because I'm a novice programmer and because the iPad is a completely unfamiliar environment and doesn't seem to have an easy way to access HTML stored on its internal drive. If it were my desktop, I'd simply set the browser's homepage to C:\filename and go from there. Can't do that on an iPad.

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Then back to GoodReader.
Jun 18, 2012 7:49AM PDT