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PCs & Mobiles Forum - Living without Flash - Page 1
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I think the internet may just be ready now to uninstall Flash. I don't think any video site I frequent requires it, YouTube, Vimeo, and others all work fine on the iPad so they obviously don't. Any that still insist on not using HTML5 perhaps don't deserve my attention.
Which leaves what... adverts. That thing which eats my CPU all the time when I have loads of tabs open, well it would if I wasn't forced to run FlashBlock because of it.
I'm quite happy to see adverts, I understand from personal experience that sites cost money, and advertising is often one of the few revenue streams for them. Well from now on I'm going to let them send me old school animated gifs, or HTML5 stuff.
Let's see if I can last a week. 
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bbc's web site needs it to use iplayer, is there a special app for that on ipad or do you not go there?
I think some weather sites I go to use it as well, either BBC again, met office, or weather.co.uk.
Some tech sites still use it as well, can't remember which, just remember recently installing an OS hadn't installed flash and certain sites got upset.
This item was edited on Sunday, 29th April 2012, 07:56
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I've hated flash for years (after finding it using too much of my laptop's CPU for a crappy advert).
So every browser I use has FlashBlock (or similar) installed.
I will only click on the blocked object if absolutely necessary. Otherwise, the flash can f*** off
The iPhone/iPad "revolution" has been great for forcing websites to consider non-flash based updates and I think the days of lots of flash heavy sites are nearly numbered.
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bbc's web site needs it to use iplayer, is there a special app for that on ipad or do you not go there?
iplayer (the webpage not the app) works on my ancient iphone 3g, so i assume theres some trickery going on to make it work, & i know for newer IOS devices there is a specific iplayer app,
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re: iPad...
iPlayer, like YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo and others, just detect you are on iOS and send you HTML5 video instead. iPlayer also now finally has an app which is even better than their mobile site.
The first site I've had problems with has been the Arsenal Player, which seems to be flash only, but I do have the Arsenal app so I could watch it on my iPad I guess, however it's hard not to see the score when I do that. 
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