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Wait, so HTML 5 isn't really an option for iOS

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micrometers

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I thought that Apple hated Flash and held up HTML 5 as an alternative.

Well, I tried to load some HTML 5 sites on my iOS device and half of them didn't work.

What gives?
 
The HTML5 video element have a preload attribute, which is used to specify if any data of the media element should be loaded before an user interaction, unfortunately Apple decided to not support this attribute on iOS to reduce bandwidth usage.
 
Last I checked, Mobile Safari is the best HTML5 web browser on a smartphone. The ONE issue I seem to be having since iOS 5 is that anytime a YouTube video is embedded on a page, the Safari YouTube plug-in doesn't run by default so you can watch a video in the built-in player, but instead it tries to play inside the window and fails. =/
 
dagamer34 said:
Last I checked, Mobile Safari is the best HTML5 web browser on a smartphone. The ONE issue I seem to be having since iOS 5 is that anytime a YouTube video is embedded on a page, the Safari YouTube plug-in doesn't run by default so you can watch a video in the built-in player, but instead it tries to play inside the window and fails. =/
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Chrome Beta > *
 
ugh, chrome. nice little browser until your 30+ porn tabs push over past the top right side and you have to close other tabs just to get to those newer ones
 
Apple not supporting the preload element is a good thing. Shame on the web developer for auto loading the video, I hate that crap. It's good practice to not auto load a video
 
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