Whats better? Slow load time or a non-smart phone friendly slideshow?

[dumpster]

Basically, a client has asked me to implement a slideshow on his site that can be viewed on iPhones etc. Since Flash is out of the picture, I am using a jQuery banner rotator that can be seen on mobile devices and tablets. The one difference is that the load time of the site has slowed down. Main concern here is not to take any kind of hit as far a SERP placement is concerned . Obvioulsy I will monitor the sites analytics closely to see what happens but any insight on this matter from someone who has experience would be greatly appreciate.

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[Fatbat]

I'm not quite understanding the question. The site loading time has slowed down as a whole on all devices or just the phone?

Use could media queries to load a specific version of the site for the phone, serving lower res images that load faster, or skipping the slideshow altogether for the mobile version of the site.

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Here's a stylesheet framework for HTML5 Boilerplate that does just that...

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[sumohax0r]

You should put in a if function and only load the Jquery slider if its a mobile phone, and if not then load the flash slider.

problem solved.

 

[Fatbat]

You should put in a if function and only load the Jquery slider if its a mobile phone, and if not then load the flash slider.

problem solved.

Why would you want to load a flash slider over a jQuery one?