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Flash on IPAD

The future is web standards like HTML5 and thanks to apple I have seen almost every website I visit adopt them.

Biggest reason I don't miss flash? I don't have to see those annoying flashing flash ads on my iPad ;)
 
Having used an android tablet for one day, flash sucks. Im sure there are other reasons for apple to keep it off ($$) it really sucks.

Badly.
 
JoEw said:
The future is web standards like HTML5 and thanks to apple I have seen almost every website I visit adopt them.

Biggest reason I don't miss flash? I don't have to see those annoying flashing flash ads on my iPad ;)
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If you set Flash to "on demand" you will never be bothered by them. However, now you will have no way to avoid html5-based ads.
 
hitekalex said:
Uhm.. You can do the same thing (cloud browsing / flash) today with iSwifter.
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Exactly. I haven't looked into this, but how is it any different than what iSwifter does?

Speaking of iSwifter, why the heck can't it be used through 3G? Very annoying limitation.
 
thelookingglass said:
Exactly. I haven't looked into this, but how is it any different than what iSwifter does?

Speaking of iSwifter, why the heck can't it be used through 3G? Very annoying limitation.
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Well Onlive is a cloud gaming platform...the basic concept is that the games are being played on their servers some 1000 of miles away and the content is streamed to you.

Its free to sign up and you can play games for 30 minutes for free...

I have never tried iSwifter...I will try and see how this is different...
 
JoEw said:
The future is web standards like HTML5 and thanks to apple I have seen almost every website I visit adopt them.

Biggest reason I don't miss flash? I don't have to see those annoying flashing flash ads on my iPad ;)
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I never understood this line of thought.

So if Flash disappeared overnight, you don't think all these annoying ads wouldn't be re-coded in HTML5 ?

What's a programming language/environment got to do with the code/programs people create with it?
 
Good stuff. Just last night I ran into a couple of flash sites on my iPad including Discovery. It's annoying running into several sites a day that just don't work.

I use onlive on my laptop, they are the real deal. Having them stream games for the iPad will be huge IMO.
 
So what's the cost of this going to be if you didn't want to play games but just surf? The little I watched does look promising
 
JoEw said:
The future is web standards like HTML5 and thanks to apple I have seen almost every website I visit adopt them.

Biggest reason I don't miss flash? I don't have to see those annoying flashing flash ads on my iPad ;)
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I don't think Apple is responsible for HTML5. Just sayin'.
 
spinedoc77 said:
Odd, I get the "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video" message in the video. This is on my ipad2.
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Works fine for me on my iPad.

Maybe you're using a 3rd party browser and have the user agent set to appear as a desktop browser? That would also explain your issues with the Discovery channel website and your problems with other Flash sites. If a website doesn't see you're using an iPad, you won't see the iPad-enabled version of the site...
 
EssentialParado said:
Works fine for me on my iPad.

Maybe you're using a 3rd party browser and have the user agent set to appear as a desktop browser? That would also explain your issues with the Discovery channel website and your problems with other Flash sites. If a website doesn't see you're using an iPad, you won't see the iPad-enabled version of the site...
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That's a possibility I'll check it out, thanks for the tip.
 
jessica. said:
I don't think Apple is responsible for HTML5. Just sayin'.
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lol me either and them trying to force everyone to run html5 has not work at ALL i know none of the site i visit (slashfilm.com for one) have updated to html 5.
and also who ever said bestthing about no flash is not annoying ads haha wait till html5 really does start taking over and i guarantee you will have those again just not using flash. sites use those ads for revune to run site, they are not gonna pay out of pocket forever.
 
I'm really looking forward to a 3rd party browser that can run flash well on demand on the iPad. Contrary to everyones beliefs its going to take many many more years for the majority of the internet to move away from flash/silverlight etc.

Even when sites just make an app instead of recoding their webpage the app is usually lacking in features or is premium (i.e. I have to pay for or within the app)
 
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