Sorry to revive this old thread
USopen's website doesn't play videos without flash, CNN, BBC, don't either but with this little trick they do. I never knew this. It doesn't work on every flash embedded site,but for my needs works great. Safari preferences- develop- user agent- safari ios5.1 iPad and voila. http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/masquerading_as_mobile_safari
USopen's website doesn't play videos without flash, CNN, BBC, don't either but with this little trick they do. I never knew this. It doesn't work on every flash embedded site,but for my needs works great. Safari preferences- develop- user agent- safari ios5.1 iPad and voila. http://daringfireball.net/2010/11/masquerading_as_mobile_safari