Website fix request: Seeing YouTube videos on this forum with an IPad

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  1. KingSpeed

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    When someone posts a youtube video, it shows up blank on my iPad. The only way I can watch it is to click on Reply To This Post and copy the link in the post. Then I must open a new window and paste the link. It wasn't always this way. I used to see the videos. Can this be fixed?
     
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    Use "tapatalk" you will never have that problem again
     
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    Tapatalk is a pile of shit. Fix the site.
     
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    It's not the site.

    Apple doesn't support flash on iPad.

    Some of the iPad apps will play flash videos, like the native YouTube app (so I hear).

    Steve Jobs publicly ragged on Flash because it made his computer and tablets slow and consumed battery charge at a ridiculous rate.

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/18800007#18800007
     
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    I love that TapaTalk app, on my iPad and phone!
     
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    You've got to be kidding.. How could anyone prefer browsing a forum on a mobile browser over tapatalk? That's like preferring MS-DOS over Windows 7..
     
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    ^See this kind of post has to stop. All these Blazer fans are going to see how big of geeks you guys are!
     
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    YouTube is HTML5 compliant now. Is there no forum software update to account for this?
     
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    But Denny, it used to be fine. My iPad showed the videos and then a year or two ago, it stopped. What changed?
     
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    Nothing changed on the site. We use AME to support video links. We haven't upgraded the plugin for years.

    If you read that link I sent, youtube may have some setting on their site that disabled html5. I noticed that THEY changed things, like making you log in, showing some URLs as https:// instead of http:// and other changes.

    Post a link to a thread with youtube videos that you can't play. I'll try on my iPad.
     
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    Thing is, if the little video button also showed the URL, we could watch the videos; the change to embed the videos in the posts is what makes them invisible to us.
     
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    [video=youtube;2C3b1fmMmKM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C3b1fmMmKM&feature=youtu.be[/video]
     
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  16. Denny Crane

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    I'm seeing the videos on my iPad now.

    It was as I said, flash.

    Now Google has an iframe based player, so I'm using that and it works.
     
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    Yes, flash. That is no excuse for poor mobile implementation; even android benefits from HTML5. Thank you for fixing your site's issue, if it is indeed fixed.

    EDIT: everything looks great, thank you. Still need the default width of the forum to match the banner, but it's not killing me.
     
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    Thank you so much. I see them now.
     
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    Thank you. I see it!
     
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    Yes default width match banner thingy also
     
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