Since the launch of the iPad there have been sites converting layouts and content to a compatible format. What that means is they need to remove anything Adobe Flash since the iPad controversiality is not supporting Flash at all.
Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying “Flash is a CPU Hog” which some Adobe fan boys have taken offense to.
Well thank god Apple is doing this because as a side benefit those users out there on older mac hardware may have just caught a break. I recently visited ESPN.com on my dad’s Imac G5 1ghz machine and formally video would play horribly dropping frames, audio cutting out and sometime seven crashing.
After the launch of the iPad video played smooth on ESPN.com, yet it looked exactly the same. My hunch is ESPN detects if a compatible browser that supports the <video> tag is visiting the site (Safari, FireFox or Google Chrome) it displays the video in HTML 5 format.
Flash has historically been a real problem on the mac, which they are claiming to have fixed with Flash 10.1, but sadly any mac owners on older powerpc hardware won’t notice a difference. With HTML 5 at least the web can be tolerable for these owners.