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richh60714315
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January 13, 2017
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Loading a website onto a tablet

  • January 13, 2017
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Hi,

This isn’t a Dreamwever question per se, but I’m hoping someone on here will be able to steer me to the answers I am looking for.

I am currently building an interactive presentation for our sales repas to display on tablets at trade shows. After much deliberation I have decided to produce this as a mini-website specifically designed for display on a tablet. Having not built a website in nearly 10 years, I am now learning HTML5 coding via Dreamweaver CC 2015

The site/presentation is pretty straightforward: about 30 pages with basic animations, video, slideshow and scrolling text.

The thing I’m bamboozled by is actually getting it onto the tablet, which will be an iPad in this case. I know I could load it to a website and then simply have the iPad hook up to that but the thing is, if the web connection goes down (or runs slowly) our sales rep will have nothing to show the customer. What I really want to do is load it into the hard drive of the tablet so it is permanently on the device come rain or shine. Is this even possible?

Please could someone advise me how to do this or point me to where I can get the knowledge?

Thanks in advance for all help and advice offered.

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Correct answer pziecina

There are apps that allow one to do that, but an easier approach may be to use something like dropbox to get the files to your iPad, then open them in a iPad html app such a 'Coda', (or similar) then view the site in its built in browser.

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pziecina
pziecina
Legend
January 13, 2017

If you are using html5, then you can use service workers that will run in the web browser whilst 'off-line'.

The main problem will be your knowledge in using html5, css and javascript -

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API/Using_Service_Workers

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richh60714315Author
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January 13, 2017

Thanks pziecina, I've had a quick skim and will read the article more fully tonight.

I've just had a quick thought - would a simpler answer be to load the presentation onto a wireless external drive, or even a MacBook,  and then have the iPad point at that? Is this possible?

pziecina
pziecinaCorrect answer
Legend
January 13, 2017

There are apps that allow one to do that, but an easier approach may be to use something like dropbox to get the files to your iPad, then open them in a iPad html app such a 'Coda', (or similar) then view the site in its built in browser.

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