<story><title>BBC iPlayer begins to trial HTML5 player</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/19d875b8-c966-465b-880a-e38c71900c4c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>porsupah</author><text>The puzzling part, for me, is that iPlayer already happily serves plain H.264&amp;#x2F;AAC within MPEG-4 to mobile devices. Having removed Flash from my MBP a few months ago, the simplest means of accessing iPlayer for me, when not on the iPad, is just having OmniWeb identify as an iPad to the BBC.&lt;p&gt;A sample user agent: &amp;quot;Mozilla&amp;#x2F;5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit&amp;#x2F;536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version&amp;#x2F;6.0 Mobile&amp;#x2F;10A5355d Safari&amp;#x2F;8536.25&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>BBC iPlayer begins to trial HTML5 player</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/19d875b8-c966-465b-880a-e38c71900c4c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unfamiliar</author><text>I was excited for this, only to find that it doesn&amp;#x27;t support Safari on OS X. I truly do not understand why not. It already works on iOS, which presumably uses the same webkit. Safari is the default browser on OS X where flash doesn&amp;#x27;t come pre-installed; but yay, it works with Chrome on OS X which already has flash baked into it.&lt;p&gt;This is made more irritating by the fact that setting the User Agent to &amp;quot;iPad&amp;quot; on OS X has always yielded a perfectly functional HTML5 player.</text></comment>