Sports Illustrated is on this list? I guess their video is HTML5 but the rest of that pig web site must be full of Flash.
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Apple Highlights 'iPad-Ready' Web Content
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No one is making you buy an iPad. If you don't like it, move on to something else. HTML5 is the future and those who rely on flash will figure it out sooner or later.
Those guys over at Adobe had a chance to lead the evolution of a new standard in web creation.
Though instead, they want to just be lazy, well now they'll learn the hard way and maybe they'll let go and wake up from that OLD technology they call Flash.
If there not careful they'll be playing catch-up in a flash
Though instead, they want to just be lazy, well now they'll learn the hard way and maybe they'll let go and wake up from that OLD technology they call Flash.
If there not careful they'll be playing catch-up in a flash
HTML5 Video Not Working
Per Apple's Instructions I changed Safaris user agent to:
and yet all of the sites (CNN, New York Times, etc.) still load their video using flash.
Am I missing something?
Per Apple's Instructions I changed Safaris user agent to:
Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10and yet all of the sites (CNN, New York Times, etc.) still load their video using flash.
Am I missing something?
The only thing that is good about flash is the fact that 'everyone' uses it. Now people have started to adopt HTML5 adobe is in trouble. It's a bit like USB, Firewire is better but there is hardly any support for it.
iPad + iPhone HTML5
I hope so. The iPhone has the same browser, so it should.
I am a web developer, so this is good news. I have not used any HTML5 elements, but now I have a reason to.
P.S. - Happy April Fools Day! I LOVE WINDOWS!!!
I hope so. The iPhone has the same browser, so it should.
I am a web developer, so this is good news. I have not used any HTML5 elements, but now I have a reason to.
P.S. - Happy April Fools Day! I LOVE WINDOWS!!!
12 whole sites, boy that's gonna show them.
Until I see Hulu, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network and the other TVoIP sites on that list it is lacking.
Until I see Hulu, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network and the other TVoIP sites on that list it is lacking.
What do you really know? Huh! Flash IS a resource hog. At my job we have a fairly powerful windows pc and it runs like a snail on the Nike site. Tons of flash! I have to leave that site all the time cause I get frustrated at how slow it runs there. Besides, nobody really cares about that flash stuff when they are on the net looking or info. You little children are making an Everest of of a mole hill.
Ummm. Right. So the iPad won't be able to access RIA content for YEARS. [edit: whoops! I almost forgot. Apple wants you to PAY for this content via apps]
Go ask Google about why they're including Flash in Chrome. Or why every other friggin' mobile phone & tablet maker in the world is partnering up with Adobe to get 10.1 on their devices. HTML5 is fine for basic flash-type stuff, but there's more to the web than cnn and videos of cat's playing the piano!
Jobs is wrong. (so are you)
And how many Flash games, which are often designed for mouse input and rely on actions like mouse hover to work, would work anyway even if the iPad did have Flash?
The smart developers will be developing native iPad games anyway, so no loss there.
It'll take a lot less time with a big-gunner like Apple abandoning all support. They have a stranglehold on a large proportion of the smartphone market; they are soon to have almost a monopoly on the tablet market. By using this leverage they're effectively forcing (rightly or wrongly) the big sites on the Internet to abandon Flash. This will quickly trickle down to the smaller sites. I'd say Flash will be a non-entity in the online video world by this time next year.
Plus, just take into consideration that almost everyone hates Flash. There is motivation to get rid of it. It's not like the move from DVD to BluRay where there is a huge amount of reluctance due to the only marginal increase in quality; we are talking about a hated piece of software from a hated company here. Adobe really are the dregs.
I'll gladly stand with Steve Jobs on this one. Time will tell where the trend lies, but I'm comfortable with where I stand.
I never once missed Flash on my iPod touch. I similarly don't expect to see any problems with the iPad. This is a non-issue for most people. I know before the iPhone came out people ranted and raved about how the "whole Web" wasn't available to the iPhone. Made no difference to the marketplace. Neither will this.
Isn't it amazing how some tech attracts wrath? I've noticed the same thing that almost everyone despises Flash. Sometimes I think the only people on earth who like Flash are Flash developers (obviously), Adobe (obviously), and MacRumors posters (totally mystifies me why).
Hmm I just viewed that on my iPhone 3G and got around 2 frames per second animation...after 30 seconds the goat and the little guy had just about managed to walk to the middle of the screen. Wouldn't even a Flash plugin do better than that?
Indiana Jobs and the lost crusade
Or that childish Jobs is doing that with his pathetic and unprofessional crusade against a technology that he personally hates. Give the people easy, stylish options, so they can be creative... er, wait! Apple doesn't want that, they have different ideas of fun. Here they present... iWork!!! "I feel like I've been there."
Have fun - just the way Apple wants it. THE ONLY WAY.
Hopefully, your iPad will last for five years, when you can start enjoying the internet as it is (or will be).
Or that childish Jobs is doing that with his pathetic and unprofessional crusade against a technology that he personally hates. Give the people easy, stylish options, so they can be creative... er, wait! Apple doesn't want that, they have different ideas of fun. Here they present... iWork!!! "I feel like I've been there."
Have fun - just the way Apple wants it. THE ONLY WAY.
Hopefully, your iPad will last for five years, when you can start enjoying the internet as it is (or will be).
Reality check
As much as I'd like to see everybody adopt HTML5 for video over Flash, I have no choice but to continue deploying FLVs for video on my employer's Web sites as long as the overwhelming majority of my employer's customers and prospects use Windows Internet Explorer -- and mostly older versions of it, to boot. At the rate they're having IE 6 and IE 7 pried out of their "cold, dead hands," that could easily be quite a few years.
As much as I'd like to see everybody adopt HTML5 for video over Flash, I have no choice but to continue deploying FLVs for video on my employer's Web sites as long as
the overwhelming majority of my employer's customers and prospects use Windows Internet Explorer -- and mostly older versions of it, to boot. At the rate they're having IE 6 and IE 7 pried out of their "cold, dead hands," that could easily be quite a few years.
So because Apple doesn't want us to view half the internet (no Flash), content providers are going to be falling all over themselves to give in to Apple and be on their special list??
Apple lock-in is beginning to affect the entire industry, never mind the user.
Gimme a break.