1. Wikis
As MC has pointed out in Comments, the iPad is not too good at editing wikis. There hasn't been good software yet to manage editing very well. This has been a significant disappointment for those like me who find wikis a wonderful aid to publishing and collaboration. However, I had another look at Google Sites on the iPad and to my surprise, things have improved a lot. Nearly all the tools work fine, the only exception if found was uploading images. However if you add your images to Picasa Web Albums they can easily be imported from there.
But I must admit that we really need a nice app or two designed for a touch screen to manage wikis and similar. The ordinary web page on the iPad screen is very fiddly, and would benefit from smaller and more nimble fingers than mine. When you use a purpose built app like Garage Band on the iPad it really is a pleasure to use. However, wikis, at least Sites work fine now, and I am sure will be better in the near future.
2. You can't use Flash on an iPad
Well, in the last week this so called problem is disappearing. See Jobs Was Right: Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash, Backs HTML5. The lack of Flash capability on the iPhone and iPad has been seen by technological traditionalists as a major flaw. True, it has meant annoying blank screens when one tries to view some online video. But Steve Jobs insisted that Flash is a poor technology that, among other shortcomings, drains the battery too fast. Instead, Apple committed to the new web standard, HTML5 which incorporates video in the the browser. The lack of support for a technology by the tablet with about two thirds of the market must have made it hard for Adobe to continue with Flash.
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