Forcing HTML5, or Why I don't use most stock-based ROMs

[bsaman]

I'm hoping someone can help me with this dilemma:

JB, and most of the mobile world, it seems, no longer support Flash and are moving toward HTML5. Yet, ESPN continues to treat Android tablets as Flash-capable and don't play videos on my TF300T.... unless I switch the user agent on the stock browser to ipad (gasp!),at which point HTML5 videos are displayed and play fine (though browser FC occur after full screen viewing).

However, and I don't know enough about building ROMs to fully comprehend, the stock browser on stock-based ROMs don't include the option for selecting a different user agent, whereas CM10 and Baked 6 do.

I've read great posts about the performance of some ROMs, but I've always switched back once I find that I can't play videos on ESPN's web site. Can someone fill me in on how I could get *all* sites that support HTML5 to provide that by default?

Thanks in advance.

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[conan1600]

I'm hoping someone can help me with this dilemma:

JB, and most of the mobile world, it seems, no longer support Flash and are moving toward HTML5. Yet, ESPN continues to treat Android tablets as Flash-capable and don't play videos on my TF300T.... unless I switch the user agent on the stock browser to ipad (gasp!),at which point HTML5 videos are displayed and play fine (though browser FC occur after full screen viewing).

However, and I don't know enough about building ROMs to fully comprehend, the stock browser on stock-based ROMs don't include the option for selecting a different user agent, whereas CM10 and Baked 6 do.

I've read great posts about the performance of some ROMs, but I've always switched back once I find that I can't play videos on ESPN's web site. Can someone fill me in on how I could get *all* sites that support HTML5 to provide that by default?

Thanks in advance.

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I am on cromi 3.0.4 and I just checked ESPN. Simply long press the video you want to watch then choose open in new browser this will pop up a window asking if you wish to play it in MX player, video player etc. I use MX player and it plays great. U have to download MX player from Google play by the way

 

[bsaman]

I am on cromi 3.0.4 and I just checked ESPN. Simply long press the video you want to watch then choose open in new browser this will pop up a window asking if you wish to play it in MX player

I'm not sure I understand. What is cromi 3.0.4?

I have MX Player installed, but when I visit espn.com (the desktop site) I see " You need to have the Adobe Flash Player to view this content. Please click here to continue." Long pressing the space where the video should be doesn't return anything. This happens in the stock browser and Chrome.

 

[conan1600]

I'm not sure I understand. What is cromi 3.0.4?

I have MX Player installed, but when I visit espn.com (the desktop site) I see " You need to have the Adobe Flash Player to view this content. Please click here to continue." Long pressing the space where the video should be doesn't return anything. This happens in the stock browser and Chrome.

cromi 3.0.4 is clean rom inheritance. its a custom rom based on stock asus rom. works well for me and the fellow that made it seems to be supporting as well as anyone could. anyway it has flash player built in although you can actually just install the apk on any rom if you go to old versions of adobe flash player then scroll down to find the latest for ice cream sandwich (4.0) and download it. but it never worked as well in any other rom as it does in this one, at least for me.

 

[bsaman]

anyway it has flash player built in although you can actually just install the apk on any rom

Oh, I see. My issue is that I feel that I shouldn't have to pollute my tablet with outdated, unsupported software to get basic functionality that is otherwise accessible by mimicking an ipad via the browser's user agent. I mean, the functionality is right there in the browser and works much better than flash.

I should also be able to use any third party browser, including those that don't offer flash support (i.e Firefox) without websites thinking "oh, an android device; load up the outdated video player." That's probably a point to make to ESPN, I suspect.


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[conan1600]

Oh, I see. My issue is that I feel that I shouldn't have to pollute my tablet with outdated, unsupported software to get basic functionality that is otherwise accessible by mimicking an ipad via the browser's user agent. I mean,the functionality is right there inthe browser and works much better than flash.

I should also be able to use any third party browluding those that don't offer flash support (i.e Firefox) without websites thinking "oh, an android device; load up the outdated video player." That's probably a point to make to ESPN, I suspect.


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I would say your right. Its my wish that web site makers would get to working on this issue. I like to read marvel comics unlimited and they use flash as well nor have they at this time made an app to read on android so if you don't enable flash then your out of luck on a mobile device. I will most likely buy the surface pro upon its debut so that my web surfing is not limited on moblile. I already own a few dell xt3 tablet PC's and they work well but are large so i have hope for the surface with core i5

 

[University of Pi]

You can install flash on jb with the apk
There are some threads and Adobe s website

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