OP: Now I like the Desire on the whole but do find a few things annoying… inability to play videos from some websites Mpora/Dirt being the prime example
Dirtynap: IOS will not play flash thats why most video do not play. Ask Apple as to why.
Anyone spot the slight non sequitur here? 🙂
Fwiw Mpora videos play fine on the iPhone (they are html5) and there is also an mpora iPhone app.
Strange then, that when using IE 64bit (that doesn’t support Flash/Adobe haven’t updated Flash to 64bit), I come across all sorts of stuff that won’t play.
Strange when I use a Flash-blocked PC, as all mine are, I rarely deactivate it. The only site I can think of that uses Flash which I might want to browse on a phone is the BBC News, but they have a dedicated iPhone app anyway that is much friendlier.
I reckon around 99% of useful flash use on the web is just to serve up H.264 encoded video – which is quickly giving way to html5 video and which the skyfire browser can usually play anyway.
I really don’t miss flash. If it could be added and wasn’t a huge security hole, didn’t crash the phone and wasn’t a massive drain on the battery then I would happily accept it (though I still want to be able to turn it off).