iPad Safari Walkthrough (Video)

Chauncey Dupree
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February 16, 2010
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For those who haven't had a chance to play with the iPad Safari simulator (or the real thing) here's a quick 6-minute run-through of the iPad's browser features:


iPad Safari Walkthrough 


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Comments (55)

Adam (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 9:11pm

How about you guys do your part in killing flash by hosting your own videos in iPhone compatible formats...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 10:02pm

Hit the link and wont this open up in iphone YouTube?

Seth Weintraub | February 16, 2010 - 9:12pm

youtube doesn't require flash

Gloria (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 1:32am

Of course it does. Think before you type ;-)

Stets (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 2:15am

Yes, which is why all of their videos are available in h.264 accessible from iPhone OS devices and why you can opt-in to an HTML5 beta that lets you use their site in a desktop browser with no flash at all.

Smiles77 (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 9:52am

Where can you opt into the beta? I can't find it on the YouTube page.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 5:55pm

google://youtube HTML5

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 18, 2010 - 10:59am

No, on the iPhone, youtube does not require flash. Think before you type :)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 9:13pm

I am switching to this website for all my Apple related rumors. It is much faster at updating then the other rumors sites plus it has interesting things like this.

ipadozor (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 9:19pm

yeah, some bugs

Matt | February 16, 2010 - 9:38pm

They've already dealt with Flash errors. We get the ambiguous blue Lego brick in real life. This was shown in the product demo and the big brouhaha over the ads. How'd you miss that one?

Rabid Puffin (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 9:58pm

I second Adam on te Flash video stuff. Can't watch on my iPhone. Shame. I'll catch it later...maybe. Who am I kidding! I eat all this iPad crap up and'll watch it at work tomorrow.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 10:08pm

on the CNN comment - you probably only get the real vs mobile version of the web site because they don't know how to handle the USER-AGENT string yet ...

Macnerd (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 10:39pm

I agree totally. This video should be iPhone friendly. I hate the brick of death.

Nancy | June 04, 2010 - 4:16am

I am not always so positive about watching the HD video's in mobile, recently i had an iphone and i use to browse some of the best video sharing youtube resources and other online video sites like motionbox, metacafe.com,aniboom and i am really amazed with the high resolution and streaming of the video even with low bandwidth i think that really had changed my perception of watching online videos in cell phones.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 10:40pm

Is there an option in Settings to have it so your Bookmarks Bar is always displayed?
That's a huge thing for me, 99% of sites I visit on my Mac are right through my Bookmarks Bar!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 16, 2010 - 11:18pm

Way to go, flash video. Thanks 9to5mac. Honestly this sounds like an interesting video but I'll forget about it by the morning. I'd watch it NOW but there isn't a YouTube link. And I left the MacBook Pro in the office. Sigh. Oh well.

Thanks 9to5...

Ben (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 12:00am

I agree: please format your videos so they can be watched on an iPhone.

Ryu (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 12:03am

There is no way in hell Apple will put Flash on the iPad/iPhone. So unless you want your users to not watch your videos, just make a decent site without flash already.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 12:42am

Can you test Google Docs using the simulator, I would be interested to know if the full web versions of Gmail & Google Docs are fully functional on the iPad. Theres no reason why they wouldn't, buy you never know.

Also, if using the full website version of Facebook is the iPad virtual keyboard going to obscure the bottom of the screen for chat in browser.

NoComment (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 3:46am

I only made some random tests, but Google Docs works fine in the iPad simulator.

Relwal (not verified) | February 23, 2010 - 11:23am

Google Docs do not allow content editing.

apples (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 12:45am

thanks, would love to see more walkthrough videos

Tim B. (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 1:42am

Does the Safari on the iPad support the HTML-Metatag "viewport"?

Thomas (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 2:18am

How about HTML5? Can the the browser handle movies on Youtube and Vimeo that are in HTML5 instead of Flash? That would be interesting.

NoComment (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 7:52am

It seems that they do not recognize the ipad's safari correctly so they don't offer this option when viewing a video's page, even if you turn on html5-support eg. in youtube.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 21, 2010 - 11:22pm

not true; YouTube with HTML5 is working great over here on the iPad simulator

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 3:11am

The smaller bevel in the emulator look great! This is how the real thing should look!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 7:49pm

I guess it's so that the simulator will fit in the 20 inch iMac's screen :)

Kmsx (not verified) | February 17, 2010 - 4:33am

C'mon guys!

Get it together and stop using flash for ur videos so everyone can see them!

Don't u get the irony here?!