{"id":13968,"date":"2018-01-04T02:58:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=13968"},"modified":"2018-01-06T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T00:18:22","slug":"no-flash-hack-with-responsive-design-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/no-flash-hack-with-responsive-design-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"No Flash Hack with Responsive Design Mode – by David Bogdan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RussianHello Allison and Happy New Year from Japan!<\/p>\n

I kind of had a problem to be solved to which listening to Allison’s podcast this morning may have provided the solution.<\/p>\n

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As has happened to me on numerous occasions, today I found myself wanting to view a video on my Mac which would not play without me installing Flash Player, something I definitely did not want to do.<\/p>\n

On the iPad, however, I could view that same video on the same website, which got me to thinking that that means that the video can play without Flash.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, in your podcast about helping your father-in-law solve his bank sign-in woes, you mentioned something called “Response Design Mode” on Safari, which seems to let the browser imitate being on various devices, including iDevices.<\/p>\n

\"BbcThis got me to wondering again, this time whether this mode would allow one to obviate the Flash requirement in order to view a video.<\/p>\n

I just tried it, and it worked! I entered the mode via the Develop Menu and chose the larger-sized iPad and I was able to view the video fine on my iMac. <\/p>\n

Yeah!<\/p>\n

When I turned off the Response Design Mode, the video would still play, and, being paranoid, I wondered if using that mode could have somehow gotten Flash to install on the Mac.<\/p>\n

However, when I backed out of that page and reentered it (and also tried another video page on the site), it got the original “Flash Player needed” message, so I guess I’m safe.<\/p>\n

While this might not be using the mode in the exact way it was intended, I can’t see that there is anything inherently wrong about doing it, as the video is being offered in a non-Flash format anyway.<\/p>\n

Just wanted to run this by you to see what you think. <\/p>\n

There’s no doubt a much better and less round-about method for doing this, but I’m just happy I did not have to install anything extra to do this.<\/p>\n

As always, thanks much for the podcasts and please keep them coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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