Question

Is there a common way to implement videos on the web that will also work on iPhone/iPad?

My idea is to provide two versions (Flash and HTML5) and check with JavaScript if HTML5 is supported — if so, then play Flash; if not, play HTML5. Maybe there’s a better way?

Answer 1

You can use HTML5 video tag as a default option and put a fallback object tag inside it.

You can read about HTML5 video tag usage in Safari (including Mobile Safari) here: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Introduction/Introduction.html