Matth3w .... first of all - you are rude, PERIOD!!
The second - my iPad is a B-day gift, I love it and this forum is a great place to learn more about it.
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Matth3w .... first of all - you are rude, PERIOD!!
The second - my iPad is a B-day gift, I love it and this forum is a great place to learn more about it.
I never said you were an idiot or attacked you. As a matter of fact I specifically stated that the only people that don't know about it either didn't research or won it, or got it as a GIFT.Quote:
Originally Posted by ziggytex
I was speaking in purely general terms actually responding to someone else.
Sorry if you took offense or if I was not clear enough, that wasn't my intention. Clearly this situation that I described doesn't apply to you because you got it as a gift. But you aren't the first person to wonder about Flash and there have been plenty that just straight up didn't do a lick of research. I was responding to epb's joking comment because he was indirectly joking about how many people don't know about the Flash thing.
But the last thing I will say, is if THAT offended you, you should really get thicker skin before venturing out into the world of internet message boards...just my experience that you have to have thick skin. The internet is a more difficult place to show and express emotion, and if you get offended over nothing like that, you will have a hard time on internet message boards. That's just a piece of advice and my .02 so if it doesn't apply to you or you don't care what I say, feel free to ignore it.
Ok, I think Flash should be supported if I wanted it. But I knew that it wasn't when I joined the Apple economy.
One of the problems with Flash I have read is that it does not interface well with a touchscreen device. The Flash applet or whatever you like to call it likes to look for the movement of the mouse regardless if your clicking or not.
Apple has been getting so much criticism over the iPhone and especially iPad not supporting flash that Steve Jobs wrote up a long explanation that is on Apple's site entitled Thoughts on Flash
Steve starts out by saying:
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage]. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer
Jobs goes on to make 6 main points:
That flash isnt open (Didn't expect to hear that from Apple's CEO)
Most videos are available in H.264
Reliability, security and performance.
Doesn't work well with touch
Battery life
and concludes with his final reason:
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps
I agree, Matth3w is rude and arrogant. Not sure why he answers every post here and has to make comments on people's lack of knowledge or rsearch. The worst part is he doesn't aknowledge he does it....Quote:
Originally Posted by ziggytex
I just got on this forum less then a week and thinking this is not a great place with that attitude.
You're just mad because you screwed up something with your jailbroken iPad because you didn't take the time to try to set it up with no credit card and you downloaded a cracked app that was free to begin with.
Interesting discussion but back to the original issue: I have an iPhone 3GS and an iPad 64GB WiFi+3G.
The video clips on CNBC's website (under "VIDEO" on their standard CNBC dot com site) are what I want to watch on the iPad, just like the original poster.
If I go to this link on my iPhone's browser, I can see the video clip thumbnails, and if I tap on one, QuickTime launches and the video plays.
On the iPad, I cannot even see the thumbnails, let alone tap on one and it launch and play. The screen where the thumbnails should be is just white, not even an "X" style box in place of the thumbnails.
Certainly this can't be a Flash issue if the iPhone 3GS does this properly (if you have both devices, give it a try, just to be sure I am not wrong).
Any thoughts on why it works on an iPhone but not an iPad, if they have the same Flash-averse technology?
Thanks.
Might be the default user-agent the iPad browser is advertising. iPhone has been around for a while and many sites are designed to look for the *iphone* user-agent to redirect it to a specifically designed Mobile site. It might not know what the iPad is yet, and just tries to render it as a standard computer browser, expecting it to be able to render everything as normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by srd6
As y2kgtp said, it's detecting your browser. Ironically, most sites see the iPad as an iPhone because of Safari Mobile; you seem to have hit upon a site that sees it as full Safari. If you get another browser, like Atomic, you can set it to identify itself as Safari Mobile, which will get you the same version as your iPhone.Quote:
Originally Posted by srd6