Can someone from BBC persuade someone else in BBC with the right powers to make
a statement on this?
FYI Apple have now enabled access to UK AppStore for iPad users
Paul
On Tue, 11 May 2010 08:33:03 +0100, you wrote:
>While the method below is still working fine - it remains a bit of a pain to
>use.
>Any chance that someone in BBC could make the change that I suggested nearly a
>month ago - namely to add the iPad as an
>alias for the iPhone (user-agent strings below).
>If BBC makes special format for iPad in the future then fine ... simply remove
>the alias at that point.
>
>Paul Webster
>
>On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:34:42 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Ah - good idea.
>>I guess that means that the Apple webkit is statically linked - so it picks
>>up the iPhone version.
>>Just tried it by using the iPhone Facebook app - and became a "fan" of one of
>>the BBC iPlayer pages ... which has a link
>>in the info section. Worked well.
>>
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:11:26 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>>If you use an iPhone app with a built in browser ("Files" works well for
>>>me), you can access the iPhone iPlayer on the iPad. It looks reasonably
>>>good in pixel-doubled mode.
>>>
>>>Jamie.
>>>
>>>On 15 Apr 2010, at 12:33, Paul Webster paul-at-dabdig.com |BBC Lists/Example
>>>Allow| wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok - I admit it ... I have one.
>>>> Any chance of adding iPad Safari user-agent to the list of things that
>>>> look like an iPhone so that iPlayer works?
>>>>
>>>> Here are examples:
>>>> iPad:
>>>> Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us)
>>>> AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4
>>>> Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10
>>>>
>>>> iPhone:
>>>> Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us)
>>>> AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0
>>>> Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16
>>>>
>>>> I realise that it could be optimised for the display characteristics - but
>>>> right now it is useless because BBC site asks
>>>> for Flash.
>>>>
>>>> Paul Webster
>>>>
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