CBS suits up, promises iPad-friendly HTML5 video for all content by this Fall
By Ross Miller 
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I only commented on this article because I love How I Met Your Mother
@ChickenGod
A flash player for ipad would be legen ... wait for it ... darrryyy
wait ... not gonna happen. thank god for google and android 2.2 i guess
@shhaight
What? Flash doesn't work on any mobile device. HTML5 does.
Thank god for Apple pushing new / better technology, eh?
@ChickenGod do you(or anyone else for that matter) know how to access HTML5 websites of CNN & co? Changing the browser agent to the one of the ipad doesnt work (neither does uninstalling flash and changing it)
@k234 Yeah, I wouldn't mind being Flash-less everywhere. I know with ClickToFlash, a Safari plugin for Mac, you can make youtube videos load as Quicktime, without Flash. But that's the only site it works on.
@suicidebob
Skyfire browser on Android does Flash.
You stand corrected.
@suicidebob
HTML5 video is flawed.
Why? No unilateral support for a single codec.
So as a dev, pushing content in a single format is unattainable; not every browser will be able to display it.
Proof: Firefox currently supports only Ogg Theora, while Chrome does only h.264.
See how this gets, sucky? (For lack of a better term.)
Don't get me wrong. I can't wait for HTML5 to become the defacto standard. But until then, I'll stick with the largest market share - the one chugging along with IE and flash - not a fringe segment.
@worldspawn HTML5 is a step forward and a step back at the same time. Like the technology from Star Wars.
@worldspawn That still just covers streaming video though. People seem to forget that many like Google are banking on the future of cloud computing for lightweight devices, and Flash offers a single unified hand to hold across any browser with capabilities that HTML5 simply doesn't have.
So not only is HTML5 not ready for prime-time and resulting in a limited web for those restricted to its use, but it severely cripples you in what you can do.
The great thing for businesses like Apple and Microsoft though is that it can get you to purchase their proprietary applications, rather than have you using free cross platform flash based ones.
@ChickenGod
whoa, HOW exactly did you meet my mother?!?
@shadowj0
Skyfire actually only partially supports flash.
to-date there is no _full_ version of Flash (10.1) available on any mobile device - which is why Adobe is hard at work.
Flash lite is sporadically available on a number of devices, but that really isn't much more than a way to play through video content - which is already do-able with youtube apps for the major phone OS
@Darkroom The Open Screen Project? Please.
That's only open if Adobe likes it open. Say what you want, but Apple is pushing closed standards on the devices they sell, while Adobe wants to push closed standards on everyone's devices regardless of who sells them.
@nothingreal
*salutes*
"Major Phone OS".
@worldspawn HTML 5 video isn't flawed, the Firefox devs just need to get off their freetard soap-box and offload video decoding to the OS. They take a moral stance against H.264 licensing so can't included a decoder with the browser but nobody else does anyway, they use the system components for it.
I understand their argument but it's not even as bad a situation as me saying I won't make a DVD player until they ship movies using a codec free of license restrictions. VLC or MPlayer will play H.264 movies just fine so just channel the decoding through them. All open source.
@suicidebob "Flash doesn't work on any mobile device." Wrong. My n900 runs it. My winmo 6.5 has skyfire. It is coming out on the android too and is seen extensibly in videos of beta testers.
@fast I think he was referring to flash 10.1. Not Flash lite.
@worldspawn
well, there are must more, but Im also waiting HTML5.
pat
this article "On Apple's iPad, HTML5 and Flash" guys may be interested in: http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/on-apple-ipad-html5-and-flash.html
Next step for CBS: Make shows that people want to watch.
@justinpe
That's funny they are in a battle for being America's Most Watched Network, I guess that really means no one watches them...
@steveymacjr agreed. And I never thought I would see a network fan boy.
@justinpe
HAHAHA I was thinking the same exact thing..I don't even like any of the network TV shows anymore, they are all garbage. The 90s was a great time for TV, now it's gone to absolute shit..thank god there's still some decent shows on cable though.
@DoctarPeppar
If you born 10 years before your actual birth, you'd say the 80's were the best. Really, nostalgic fanboys are loud.
@justinpe
How I Met Your Mother! It's the ONLY good CBS show. Watch it!
@ChickenGod
Sir I request you to consider how awesome Big bang theory is, Now watch it too bitch
Can't wait to watch this while I'm cooking. I mean with an ipad stuffed into the cabinet, who wouldn't like it.
@Robert Jordan
While I agree that is a bad idea its not that strange. Since the mac mini people have been jamming computers into all kinds of places.
@thedankone
I had to go to emergency the last time I tried to mod my Mac mini. :(
They don't make shows and cartoons like they use to.
Animaniacs
Married with children
I love Lucy
pinky & the brain
@Av4ry Narf!
@Av4ry YouTube FTW.
they should do that for everyone with Flash disabled.
Best to stick with Flash 10.1 on the desktop, at least until Chrome can natively do GPU-accelerated video embedded through HTML5.
@r3loaded What!!!!!!! This is the ridiculous. They have to cater to the ipad because over a million have been sold!!!!!
@Robert Jordan Emphasis on "on the desktop".
of Course they aren't going to use HTML5 for the Desktop site....not enough browsers in use support it and as far as I know, isn't it fairly easy(at the moment) to just rip a video that in HTML5?
@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi
Shouldn't be too hard to spoof an iPad and make your browser be redirected to the HTML5 site.
I prefer this approach to a native app. Both would be ideal I guess but this way everyone with an HTML5 capable browser can benefit. The quick shift to HTML5 video is really stunning.
CBS says challenge "accep-ted." Get it?
HTML6 > HTML5
@Mr. Obvious aka MattsZ really? Thanks for this astounding information. You should tip it to Engadget.
@MattsZ
HTML 9000 > HTML 8999
@n8equalsd Wait... HTML's power goes to 9000?!?
@Samurai Jack No, I'm pretty sure it's over 9000.
@Steve2000 What, nine thousand? There's no WAY that can be right!
Can't wait for FroYo!
Buh buh but the Apple Haters said that we were missing out on the entire web by getting an iPad.
Oh yes I'm sure the million plus iPad users are just CRYING in their sleep over the missing flash ads, decreased battery life, and horrible overall performance that they were spared by Apple and Jobs.
@TheLondonExchange
Shhh, sarcasm is lost on them.
@TheLondonExchange
Uh... Without these apps (which are not released yet), you *ARE* missing out on a huge part of the web.
That's kind of the whole ENTIRE reason they need to make these apps.
Did you mean for your post to sound that stupid or did it just come out that way?
@Johnny Rockets
I can tell you that you come out sounding very stupid!.
@Johnny Rockets
Johnny you're the only one sounding stupid here...lmao
Desperate to the last.
The new rallying point for the Apple Haters? The Evo 4G...we'll see how this so called "iPhone killer" does in reviews and more importantly how it does in the marketplace.
Already Sprint has set it up for failure by not marketing it properly.