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  > People complain that Flash has bugs only because they
  > never tried to do anything “complex” using HTML5 video
  > on the iPad
Yeah? So if one tries to do something complex on iPad, will Flash bugs disappear? Or will people stop complaining about them?

I guess neither. Just another pointless rambling with little sense. Author mixes many things without the proper understanding of some. Was this article about iPad, or HTML, or CSS, or Flash, or …?

I am not sure how this even got upvoted. Take this:

  > I’m saying that the iPad is the new IE6 because we are
  > expecting it to be something that it isn’t,
Who is expecting what exactly?

> the same way that we were expecting that IE6 would have > the same features/performance/reliability than the latest > versions of Firefox/Safari

What does that even mean? IE6 was released years before even first releases of Firefox and Safari.

  > It happened with IE6 and it is happening with the iOS
  > Safariright now.
No, it's not. Safari is not stuck with 10 years old version, and Safari team is not disbanded, unlike IE team.

Flagged.




If it wasn't for the "Flagged." I would have upvoted you.

The post has some real issues, but I also find it raises valid concerns. Supporting iOS/android/other devices can prove to become a real pain. OTOH the lifespan of these devices are most likely to be far shorter than corporate desktop computers, and IT departments won't have an option of installing older versions of the browser on new devices.




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