I am a commercial pilot and is the moderator of a website by our airline named magicofflight.com. Now we are always on the fly, I prefer something lighter than a laptop, when i heard about ipad. So my doubt is whether ipad can display flash video embeds on the site because our site will play videos on jw player.
Please explain. This is what is holding me from buying the ipad.
Thanking you in advance,
Vishnu
Hey Vishnu welcome. I'll answer your question out of experience. And just to give you a little advice, when you come into these forums, try not to say the "F" word. No, I don't mean "F*#@". "FLASH". So far you haven't received a straight answer on whether or not Flash videos will work on the iPad. From my experience, most of the sites with Flash videos I go to watch online from my PC (CNN, Globoesporte, YOUPORN, etc LOL) all run on flash-based videos. You can see that by right-clicking on the video and can clearly see that it's a FLASH video. However, I don't know if the site did anything special (and maybe an expert can respond about this) but when I browse to those sites using Safari on my iPad, I get the "play" button on top of the video, and hence it works! In fact, I appreciate the iPad much more now because it does play Flash videos (from what I understand) using its built-in Youtube player without any annoying ads, specially from the CNN site. You'll notice that if you go to CNN and play one of their videos, it's the same interface of the Youtube app. I don't know if that makes any sense to you but if you go to an Apple store and fondle one of these wonderful devices, you will see that you can play some Flash videos.
HOWEVER, there are quite a few sites that Flash videos do not work. Notably any major network's site (FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS) all have episodes of your favorite TV shows that are flash-based but don't work with Safari on the iPad. Though I haven't tried Skyfire and it's claims to play "most" flash videos, it's a bit promising that we can at least see some flash videos, no? I definitely was hesitant to get the iPad when I found out it didn't support flash, but the fact is that
flash videos can and do work!
Good Luck!