[scottjl]

Actually Apple expects the internet to change and adopt what are published standards, HMTL 5, CSS, h.264, where Flash is a proprietary program from Adobe. While people may complain that he's "wrong" when you look at the letter of it, he's doing the right thing. Adobe always treated Mac Flash as second class with lackluster performance. Flash on mobile platforms is slower, less featured (it's technically Flash Lite) and drains batteries quickly. The funny thing is, if web sites change to support these standards, they'll run on any platform, with and without Flash. So in the end, it is in their best interest to start supporting the web standards. Every web site that uses Flash adds some coin into Adobe's pockets, from licensing fees to use Flash to development costs to code the sites. Sites that code to web standards don't pay out licensing fees to anyone for those standards, though they do pay development costs. Can you really fault Apple for not caring if Adobe makes a buck or not? Can you blame them for not caring to force developers and users to use a proprietary coding language? Adobe could have offered up Flash years ago to a standards body and made it a real open standard, but they didn't. Computer History is full of proprietary programming languages and environments that some company created, that flourished and died years later leaving everyone in a lurch. Flash is no different.

There are some other things you can do to trick web sites into thinking you're surfing from an iPad, changing your use string, but it's probably more involved than you want to get.

Yes, you can see Youtube videos on an iPad, you just get the h.264 encoded versions, which you're probably not getting on your desktop.