The Other Mac Blog notes CBS.com began displaying several strange “iPad-test” video links. MacRumors.com did some more digging into this matter.
“We investigated further and found that clicking on these “iPad” labeled links in your normal desktop browser brings you to the usual Flash versions of these videos. Of course, these wouldn’t properly play on the Apple iPad due to Apple’s well known decision not to support Flash. However, if you visit CBS.com using the iPad SDK Simulator or spoofing your browser’s User-Agent to impersonate an iPad, you are sent to a different version of the video.”
The new version of the video seems not to work but is based on HTML5. The iPad does support that new format in the iPad’s mobile Safari. One option does work though: the “fullscreen mode”.
