Apple featuring HTML5 sites

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24 points·martingordon··11 comments

So is HTML5 now synonymous with video player? That's pretty much what most of the sites are advertising.

Apple has a huge incentive to promote non-flash video. Since HTML5 is really the only decent way to do internet video without flash, the most notable thing about HTML5 (for that matter, really the only thing that matters to end users) is video.

I would argue that canvas is another HTML5 technology that is notable for its ability to replace Flash.

What's great about this is that you can spoof your own Mac's user-agent string so that you can get flash-free video.

I just uninstalled Flash (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html) - why keep that garbage on your computer if you don't need it? -- and now my computer doesn't overheat when I watch a TED talk. This is great!

That shouldn't be necessary though - the site should serve up HTML5 video to all Safari/Chrome users instead of just those on the iPad.

It is necessary. I had to change my user-agent string to get the HTML5 video page (without it, I just got the regular "please install flash player" message).

What did you change it to? I tried a UA of iPhone but that didn't work on the couple of sites that I viewed.

Got it.

http://www.onedigitallife.com/2005/08/03/changing-safaris-us...

http://www.labnol.org/tech/ipad-user-agent-string/13230/

Weird that none of those are clickable (or tapable) links.

Um yeah that's kind of a huge oversight there Apple.

Links are so HTML4

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