How to view Flash sites on iPhone and iPad

How to view websites in Flash on the iPhone and iPad. As many probably know, the browser of Apple devices does not display Flash content for Web sites.

This limitation is due to a specific choice made from the beginning of the house of Cupertino who saw, perhaps rightly, a major problem of security and possible vulnerabilities that could come from a player created and operated by third parties.

Lately sites created with Flash are tending to disappear also by virtue of the fact that they are penalized by Google during the indexing process. There remain many sites that adopt this technology. And if we happen to be in need of information on our iPhone or iPad, and is contained on a Flash site. What can we do? We see the solution.

1.) If your Apple device with access a website with Flash content will result in a completely unusable page. No content, no links, no pictures. The solution comes to us from an alternative browser called Puffin and, which can be downloaded from the App Store in the free version or a fee. This browser, very light and so fast, you can play on our devices ” bitten apple ” even sites created with Flash. And I have not written play at random.

2.) The Puffin browser will only show us a kind of image of the requested site that is processed by the server of the manufacturer. This is why we can see the sites properly, but also play movies in full screen. Of course, all features are enabled (links, menus etc …) as if we were seeing the site directly processed by our device. Puffin supports, like all browser tabs to manage multiple windows, block pop-ups and the automatic switching of pages in the mobile version.

3.) For the above reasons, the advice is to avoid using this technique to sites where we have to declare our data, for example, the portal of a bank, since the data in transit for a server that does not fully understand safety. Compared to the native browser of Apple devices is that those of Android, Puffin is revealed by far the fastest browser is also available from the Android market with version 2.2, while for iOS version 4.2 is the minimum required ..

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