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by buff-a 5230 days ago
A friend sends me a link to a 60 Minutes segment she feels it's important I watch. I'm on an iPad -- not that it matters ... There is no alternative -- no way to click through to the video or text that I was after

Somewhere like this: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7398478n ?

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So, no there is no way to click through to the video you were after because you are on an iPad, and iPad's do not have Adobe Flash. That means if you want to see the link that your friend sent, then you are going to have to download an app. Blame Apple and Adobe, not the website.

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"So, no there is no way to click through to the video"

Because the site set it up that way. Intentionally. So, yes, I blame the site.

Sites with a clue (like YouTube and Vimeo) have been serving HTML5 video for a couple of years now.

It's just a matter of adding another step to your automated transcoding workflow (you have one, right?)

For a small indie site the disk space consumed by keeping video in 2 or 3 different formats might be an issue, but for CBS?

Yet youtube videos work on the iPad.. hmm..