![]() ![]() I've created a demo video ( direct link) of it in action. This is what the SkyFire folks are asking for. It's better to touch the link rather than the thumbnail to load an individual video page.” Unfortunately,ġ, there're no thumbnails with for example the old-format Vimeo videos (again, check it out yourself my test page in both a desktop Web browser and on the iDevice to see where the original videos were)Ģ, it's not easy (currently, I don't know a fully universal method of it) to convert all embedded videos to links unlike, say, parsing a simple HTML page for text format links. The FAQ (also directly liked to from the bottom of the “Home” page of Skyfire) HERE states “ On pages with many video thumbnails, you likely won't see a video pop-up until you choose an individual video. (Of course, this wasn't a true example where SkyFire would have been needed at all after all, the original videos are also playable, as you can see in the original page.)Īnother one follows this time, with the old (still non-iOS-compliant) embedded format of Vimeo (the test page I created is HERE), which (unlike the previous TouchArcade example, where I only generated a list of already-playable videos) contains non-playable ones:Īs you can see (note the number of converted videos, while the main page has two), in both cases only the first video was converted. That is, on pages like THIS where there're more than one video embedded, the app will only list the first one for playback (as usual, click the images to see the original, high-quality, albeit larger ones): Important note: currently, you can't access the subsequent videos on pages where more than one are present. There is another demo HERE showing it in action. This is why I only switch to SkyFire when encountering an incompatible Flash video. Particularly under iOS5, where it received on-screen tabs and background tab opening capabilities. These are some of the reasons why I, personally, still prefer Safari because it's much more task switching and multitasking-friendly than any third-party browser, except for the non-memory-hungry Opera Mini. (They should have used at least the native iPad Safari one with all tabs in one page for quick selection.) There're no in-page searching capabilities either. Unfortunately, its tabbing support is pretty weak: it, for example, uses the iPhone type of “the list of tabs need to be scrolled to left and right to get to the right one” even on the iPad. While the initial versions didn't support for example tabs, the current one does and is, therefore, a nice alternative to Safari or other Web browsers. The iOS version of SkyFire has slowly, but steadily evolved into a pretty good self-standing Web browser. In this case, SkyFire ( iPad / iPhone ) will be your best friend. Note that it's still incompatible with SilverLight videos (e.g., those of the Finnish MTV3 Katsomo). There are tons of Web sites with videos incompatible with the iOS platform for example, Engadget (videos HERE) Let's start with playing back Flash videos without a HTML5 version that is, ones that are absolutely unplayable on iDevices. In the article below, I explain how you can watch any kind of Flash videos (via SkyFire) and how you can use full(!) Flash (and even Silverlight!) applications on your iPad (via AlwaysOnPC). Flash support has always (according to some people, painfully) been missing from the iOS platform. ![]()
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