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by EnderMB 5111 days ago
It appears that no one who has commented so far has used Flash on ICS.

I use Flash on my Galaxy Nexus, and it runs perfectly fine for everything I want to look at. Sure, it's rubbish for things like games and full-flash websites (the latter should be long gone by now anyway) but for watching Flash videos on news websites it's fantastic, and it works just as well as it does on the desktop.

I want Flash gone as much as the next guy, but video on HTML5 is no more usable.

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Video on mobile browsers should launch a video player like YouTube does when you follow a link their site. But also there should exist an attribute to avoid this for some cases.
YouTube isn't the only Flash video player though. What if you click a Vimeo link? What about a link on the BBC?

It would be ideal if there were a good native solution for all videos, but I can imagine this to be quite a hard problem.

I said "a video player" meaning a generic one. like when you click an flv link or rtsp, that launches the stock video app in my phone (ics)