ipad and google sites

[monta17]

My daughter is a teacher and their school is now using google sites to create all of the classroom websites. Since her old iBook is failing fast (and google sites won't work on it anyway since the OS can't be updated...it's that old), she is thinking about an iPad. However, some of the older info she has come across says that Google Sites doesn't work on an iPad. One post somewhere said that it will work now as long as you have iOS 5.

Does anyone know if this is correct? Would be tragic for her to get one and then not be able to use if for this purpose.

Thanks!

 

[NMF]

What do you mean by "Google sites" exactly? If you're talking about YouTube then no, you can't view the native desktop site and see the videos since they use Flash. Of course, there's an app for that.

As for everything else it works fine.

 

[Aspasia]

Google is the only search engine I use. Since day one with my iPad 2 on (March 2011) I've been able to access Google sites faster than I can on my office Windows computer. The iOS version doesn't matter. It just works.

Now, if you mean Google's browser Chrome, no, that won't work on the iPad. There's a browser called iChromy, but I've never used it since my browser's bookmarked to Google's home page.

 

[monta17]

Sorry for the confusion, but it's a google application for making websites:
http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html
http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

They use the company-wide templates for the classroom.

Again... some of the online info said it doesn't work with iPad, but the one person said that it does work with iPad running iOS 5.

Thanks again.

 

[rusty2192]

It seems to be working fine on my iPad 1 running iOS 5.0. Just keep in mind that you can't directly upload any files or anything from the iPad to any website.

 

[Yumunum]

It seems to be working fine on my iPad 1 running iOS 5.0. Just keep in mind that you can't directly upload any files or anything from the iPad to any website.

Isn't there iCab or something?

 

[Ecoh]

No problem editing Google Sites with iOS 5 installed on iPad.

 

[monta17]

Hi All,
Thanks for all the info. My daughter did go ahead and get an iPad earlier this evening she seems to be able to work on Google Sites, and the other Google applications (Google Docs, etc) just fine. So we're very happy about that and want to say thanks again.
Cheers!