{"id":1239,"date":"2010-01-28T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-01-28T23:08:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T04:08:54","slug":"ipad-and-iphone-are-bad-for-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2010\/ipad-and-iphone-are-bad-for-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad and iPhone are BAD for the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/058.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"red x\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to bore you guys to tears, but Apple&#8217;s latest move to not support Flash (and thus 99% of web video) on the iPad is very disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>The facts are simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Millions of web pages with Flash content will break on iPhones and iPads.<\/li>\n<li>Like it or not Flash is ubiquitous.<\/li>\n<li>Flash is controlled by Adobe but free to anyone to write code against.<\/li>\n<li>Apple is doing this to try and control content distribution &#8211; IMHO.<\/li>\n<li>HTML 5&#8217;s video support is years away from being an option to use on commercial web sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since Flash is not supported by the iPad or the iPhone and since the vast majority of web surfers don&#8217;t have HTML 5, if we want to deliver video on the Web, we have to support two methods of delivery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Just like it was during the 1990&#8217;s browser wars, where we had to write code for IE and code for Netscape. Thanks Apple for bringing back the good old days! Jerks.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has to stop being a bunch of iJerks and support Flash. <\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<br \/>\nwww.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to bore you guys to tears, but Apple&#8217;s latest move to not support Flash (and thus 99% of web video) on the iPad is very disturbing. The facts are simple: Millions of web pages with Flash content will break on iPhones and iPads. Like it or not Flash is ubiquitous. Flash is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}