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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How about you guys do your part in killing flash by hosting your own videos in iPhone compatible formats…
Hit the link and wont this open up in iphone YouTube?
youtube doesn’t require flash
Of course it does. Think before you type
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.
Where can you opt into the beta? I can’t find it on the YouTube page.
google://youtube HTML5
No, on the iPhone, youtube does not require flash. Think before you type
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.
yeah, some bugs
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?
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.
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 …
I agree totally. This video should be iPhone friendly. I hate the brick of death.
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.
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!
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…
I agree: please format your videos so they can be watched on an iPhone.
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.
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.
I only made some random tests, but Google Docs works fine in the iPad simulator.
Google Docs do not allow content editing.
thanks, would love to see more walkthrough videos
Does the Safari on the iPad support the HTML-Metatag “viewport”?
How about HTML5? Can the the browser handle movies on Youtube and Vimeo that are in HTML5 instead of Flash? That would be interesting.
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.
not true; YouTube with HTML5 is working great over here on the iPad simulator
The smaller bevel in the emulator look great! This is how the real thing should look!
I guess it’s so that the simulator will fit in the 20 inch iMac’s screen
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?!
It’s a bust! Reminds me of the Newton, nice device but no where to go. Unless they can get publications of any kind to work with it what is Apple going to do with it. The MAJOR BLOW to the iPad (should be iBook) is no educational publications. Zero. That in itself would have launched the iPad as a viable machine. iPad on a classroom desk instead of bulky book? Yes. As a former Apple employee for 8 years I cannot figure out why Apple didn’t get the go from the audience first before building. Where’s the foundation?
It’s a bust! Reminds me of the Newton, nice device but no where to go. Unless they can get publications of any kind to work with it what is Apple going to do with it. The MAJOR BLOW to the iPad (should be iBook) is no educational publications. Zero. That in itself would have launched the iPad as a viable machine. iPad on a classroom desk instead of bulky book? Yes. As a former Apple employee for 8 years I cannot figure out why Apple didn’t get the go from the audience first before building. Where’s the foundation?
um, I believe they are working on that before launch…
Talk about uninformed, the device needs to be accepted in general before you begin pushing it to change the world of education publishing. An adult would recognize that. You don’t launch a brand new product that no one has ever touched and say “Its all of your new textbooks, and your new notebook, everything you need for school”.
The foundation is 80 million iPhone/iPod touch users that already have Libraries of Applications and other iTunes content that are designed for the iPad.
And no, iPad is the most obvious name for such a multi purpose device, that is very similar to existing products iPod and iPhone. There are a thousand reasons why reusing iBook would have been a mistake, and one Good one: iBooks is now an iPad-only application for….*GASP*….downloading Books!
I worked with apple for 50 years. The ipad is stupid.
Am I the first one to notice/mention the Bookmarks Bar?!?!?!? How great is that!? I was really hoping to see at least SOME improvement/new feature to Safari on the iPad from the iPhone. This appears to be the first one.
Great video walkthrough. I didn’t realize iPad Safari was going to have a Bookmarks Bar. Any chance of posting more walkthroughs? I’d love to see all the Settings screens.
They are all hidden in the Simulator. This was first thing I wanted to do upon downloading the SDK
We are planning on a walkthrough of the contacts app, and maybe for settings and the homescreen sometime in the next few days.
I couln’t see the actual video either (iPhone) but it seems to be about the
emulator… Curious, doesn’t this infringe the NDA?
The bezel is smaller on the simulator than on the real thing.
This is a good feature to have on an Apple rumor site. Nice job, thanks.
This video doesn’t even work on my MacBook Pro. It’s just a blank white area–I had to use the youtube link. What’s up with it?
It says “Movie not loaded” on my MacBook Pro…guess the link is wrong?
I’m curious: What does the “globe” button on the keyboard do?
Hey Apple,
If I want to view MobileMe pages on my iPad, let me. Maybe I’m viewing someone else’s stuff, maybe I’m testing how my stuff would look to other people, but it’s my choice to view it there rather than in the dedicated app SO STOP BLOCKING ME.
thanks for listening.
Hmm where do you donwload this ipad simulater ? Is it only for OSX ? Notivce how much smaller the border is unlike the real ipad which is way too large
The simulator comes with the BETA of the iPhone SDK 3.2 available only for iPhone Devs, only for the Mac.
The Bevel is smaller possibly to better fit the screen of the smaller iMacs.
The simulator comes with the BETA of the iPhone SDK 3.2 available only for iPhone Devs, only for the Mac.
The Bevel is smaller possibly to better fit the screen of the smaller iMacs.
Where do you donwload this ???
This is really cool. I don;t get why there is just a white space for the flash content though and not the little blue icon like we get on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Maybe Apple is going to come out with some way to view flash, like creating an image from the flash and placing it there. I don’t get how Apple calls this the best desktop browsing experience without flash, because when you think about it almost every other site we use daily has some sort of flash content. Aside from that I think that the overall browsing experience on the iPad is going to be great. Thanks for the video!
I love it when 15 year old kids are making howto videos explaining that you have to click on the “x” to close the tab…
How do I get the Safari.app??
Majority of sites dont use flash beacuse Google cant and most search engines cant read it!
I find that the Safari browser is a very good user experience however it seems to be unstable for me and often freezes or craches.
I’m curious: What does the “globe” button on the keyboard do?