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Originally Posted by Yoshi 1080
... iPhone's Webkit-based Mobile Safari, however, is fully standards-compliant. So the only problem is that some competing mobile browsers are not as advanced yet as Mobile Safari is today....
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Well, except that Mobile Safari doesn't do Flash, which is a HUUUGE hole in its compliance.
People grudgingly accept the lack of Flash on the iPhone, because most don't use it to browse the web heavily, plus until Flash 10, the mobile Flash experience has been marginal.
But the iPad is being marketed as "the best way to experience the web." At which it would totally fail, since most major sites have important features in Flash, which will be unavailable on the iPad.
Moreover, HTML5 will not completely replace Flash, even when widely adopted. Flash just does a lot of things which will be very hard, or impossible to do in HTML5.
IMO, the lack of Flash is the Achilles heel of the iPad.