Getting BBC iPlayer working on the iPad Just got an iPad from the US, thinking it'd be perfect for BBC iPlayer. To my dismay, the website needed flash to play anything! Weirdly, iPhones can run it, so I'm trying to trick the iPad iPlayer website into thinking my iPad is an iPhone. It involves setting a User-Agent and using some simple code to change 'embed' tags to HTML5 video tags. Works pretty fine so far, even with full screen video and device rotation. Just needs some tidying up. Although I believe BBC will eventually update their code for the iPad, we're allowed some hacks in the meantime.... 06 May 2010