How to Watch Flash Video on Your iDevice Using iOSFlashVideo
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Posted December 7, 2010 at 7:18pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to watch Flash video on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using the iOSFlashVideo bookmarklet. Currently support sites are Dailymotion, Flickr Video, MegaVideo, Vimeo.
Step One Press to launch Safari from your SpringBoard.
Step Two Navigate to http://www.iosflashvideo.fw.hu
Step Three Press the + icon then select Add Bookmark from the popup menu.
Step Four Press the Save button.
Step Five Press the Bookmarks button at the bottom of the screen and press Edit.
Step Six Select the iOSFlashVideo bookmark, remove all content before javascript: in the bookmark location and press Done
Step Seven Press Done to exit Bookmark editing mode then press Done to exit the Bookmarks screen.
Step Eight Navigate to one of the support sites for example DailyMotion and load a page with a video. Then press the Bookmarks button and choose the iOSFlashVideo bookmarklet we saved.
You'll now be able to view the video.
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Dailymotion and Vimeo both already have great html5 video support that works with iOS. What's the point?
Obviously they'll add more later but why tout support for sites that already tout their native support for iOS?