{"id":890,"date":"2013-10-17T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:34:19","slug":"android-the-browserflash-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Android:  The Browser\/Flash Saga Continues.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I now have my replacement <strong>Hudl<\/strong> 7in tablet, and have been trying out the various options for working browsers &#8211; with <em>Flash<\/em> support.<\/p>\n<p>On my phone, I found that Chrome worked well, but this tablet always gets the &#8216;full&#8217; website, rather than the &#8216;mobile&#8217; version, and so Flash doesn&#8217;t work, any more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even implicitly typing in the &#8216;mobile&#8217; version of the URL (<em><strong>m.bbc.co.uk<\/strong><\/em>, for example) just brings up the &#8216;full&#8217; page, and then you get an &#8216;<em>You do not have the correct version of the Flash player<\/em>&#8216; error in place of the video clip, and clicking on the Download link just brings up the usual sad &#8216;<em>&#8230;not supported by your device<\/em>&#8216; error.message.<\/p>\n<p>What was needed, was a method to force the browser to access only the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mobile<\/span> version of websites, when (except in Firefox) Flash works correctly..<\/p>\n<p>I discovered that the <strong>Dolphin<\/strong> browser <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did<\/span> have an option to select a custom User Agent, and I just set this to &#8221;phone&#8221;, and now I get the mobile versions of websites, and Flash works!<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in my earlier article, we were supposed to all be using HTML5 by now, but on many major websites this just hasn&#8217;t happened, yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 17, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now have my replacement Hudl 7in tablet, and have been trying out the various options for working browsers &#8211; with Flash support. On my phone, I found that Chrome worked well, but this tablet always gets the &#8216;full&#8217; website, rather than the &#8216;mobile&#8217; version, and so Flash doesn&#8217;t work, any more.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even implicitly typing in the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=890\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,19,20],"tags":[84,671,670,673,650,672,1175,651],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-hacks","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-android-2","tag-custom-user-agent","tag-dolphin","tag-flash-support","tag-hudl","tag-mobile-website-version","tag-success","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}