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From: erilar on 14 Jun 2010 09:22 In article <87m8o8FgsiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > "erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message > news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.examp > le.com... > > In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > > "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> why do you need an app? > > > > It's an iPad. > > How is that an answer? > > Surely it has an internet browser (the website shows it with one) > > http://images.apple.com/uk/ipad/home/images/hero_20100127.png > > tim Oh, that, too. But it keeps whatever it last downloaded even when offline with the BBC app, and I've usually last done something else with Safari. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 14 Jun 2010 09:27 In article <hv4v5s$3s7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 14/06/10 10:48, tim.... wrote: > > "erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message > > news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.exa > > mple.com... > >> In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > >> "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >>> why do you need an app? > >> > >> It's an iPad. > > > > How is that an answer? > > > > Surely it has an internet browser (the website shows it with one) > > > > http://images.apple.com/uk/ipad/home/images/hero_20100127.png > > from what Erilar has said the browser can't cope with the BBC website. No, it doesn't KEEP the content offline because I've usually been doing something else, 8-) I'm still learning what the iPad can do. Back to travel again, more or less. I like to play with maps. I was in Passau at the end of April and was playing with iPad's map recently and followed the Donau from Passau all the way to the Black Sea to see what the landscape looked like. Yes, I can do that on my laptop, too, but this was just an idle game while I was relaxing and drinking coffee in my recliner. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: d4g4h4 on 14 Jun 2010 12:57 tim.... <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1jk1m9u.13u9z94do5ia7N%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... [] > > You can, but the ipad doesn't support flash, due to two large > > corporations (Adobe and Apple) having a petty fight. Disable flash on > > your browser and go to the bbc news website- the video and audio won't > > work. Same goes for almost any media website. > > You don't need flash to read the BBC, only to play their annoying videos. Whether you use it or not, the web browsing experience for a lot of people includes video and audio content. The ipad can't do that- hence why it's hardly the 'best browsing experience' as apple's marketing claims. > > I use an app for BBC news which is useful as it downloads news stories > > so you can read them online. > > OK, I can see a small need for that, but only if you really can't read > whilst online for some reason. > > In the old order world of being charged by connection time I can see that > people might want to read offline to save connection costs, but with > connections charged by megabytes nowadays that isn't going to make any > difference, or am I missing something? Yes, it's not always possible to connect, you might be roaming abroad (which is still prohibitively expensive) or like me, have an ipod which can only connect to the internet by wifi. And some ipads only use wifi AIUI. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: tim.... on 14 Jun 2010 13:05 "Martin" <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:hv50r9$pmg$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 14/06/10 12:19, tim.... wrote: >> "Martin" <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message >> news:hv4v5s$3s7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> On 14/06/10 10:48, tim.... wrote: >>>> "erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message >>>> news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.example.com... >>>>> In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>, >>>>> "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> why do you need an app? >>>>> >>>>> It's an iPad. >>>> >>>> How is that an answer? >>>> >>>> Surely it has an internet browser (the website shows it with one) >>>> >>>> http://images.apple.com/uk/ipad/home/images/hero_20100127.png >>> >>> from what Erilar has said the browser can't cope with the BBC website. >> >> But apart from the videos, it's a simple html and jpeg based site, there >> is >> nothing tricky about it at all. > > Except it blocks access if it thinks you don't have the applications > installed that it needs. not on my PC it doesn't. tim
From: tim.... on 14 Jun 2010 13:07
"erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message news:drache-DD7387.08221214062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.example.com... > In article <87m8o8FgsiU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> "erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message >> news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.examp >> le.com... >> > In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>, >> > "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> >> why do you need an app? >> > >> > It's an iPad. >> >> How is that an answer? >> >> Surely it has an internet browser (the website shows it with one) >> >> http://images.apple.com/uk/ipad/home/images/hero_20100127.png >> >> tim > > Oh, that, too. But it keeps whatever it last downloaded even when > offline with the BBC app, and I've usually last done something else with > Safari. by implication you are saying that the standard browser doesn't cache downloaded things. Yes? That's pretty poor tim |