This exciting website is brought to you courtesy of "Blogger", Google's simple blogging service. (I also use them to host my personal stories both here at at SayUncleGeorge.com. Recently I discovered that my embedded videos were not displaying properly on iPad and iPhone.
You may know that Apples mobile devices do not display Flash video -- and for good reason. (Flash is a major cause of computer crashes and its processor-heavy code quickly drains other battery-powered tablets.) Their alternative is to present video using something called "HTML5".
When I first started writing, Blogger's built-in writing tools inserted YouTube videos that seemed to play universally. What happened? Maybe because Google's "YouTube" app was not built-in to the latest version of the operating system for iPhone and iPad (iOS6)? Maybe because the source video that I uploaded to YouTube was a format that Apple dislikes? Maybe (music) content owners blocked it? The reason doesn't matter as much as the need to fix the problem!
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Obviously I am not a web design expert, but I have figured out a workaround. It takes a bit of extra work to embed special code, but beginning today all new posts should display universally. I will also go back and update older posts as time permits. The result should be something like this:(old way) Using Blogger's Video Insertion Tool, result = sometimes Flash Video:
(new way) Using Embedded HTML Code, result = HTML5 video:
I hope this works out for everyone. (And if you happen to read this and can shed some light on the technology, please let me know.)
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