“We investigated further and found that… if you visit CBS.com using the iPad SDK Simulator or spoofing your browser’s User-Agent to impersonate an iPad, you are sent to a different version of the video,” Kim reports. “This new version of the video does not yet work but appears to be based on HTML5. The css files reference HTML5 and have a number of ‘webkit’ specific calls. Webkit is the browser engine used in the iPad’s mobile safari.”
Kim reports, “While the videos don’t currently play, the ‘fullscreen mode’ reportedly already works in the iPad simulator.”
Full article, with screenshot, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Another nail in Adobe Flash video’s coffin.
MacDailyNews Note: Note to advertisers (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting iPod touch users. And, very soon, iPad users won’t be seeing them, either. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.
Help kill Adobe’s Flash:
• Ask CNBC to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Contact Hulu and ask them to offer HTML5 video via email:
• Ask ESPN360 to offer HTML5 video instead Flash via their feedback page here.
• Join YouTube’s HTML5 beta here.
• On Vimeo, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video.