When surfing the web on the iPad, will the user agent cause sites to return the iPhone-optimized version, or the standard web browser version?
From what I can tell, web pages will be returned as the regular browser experience.
A lot of people have made noise about the iPad not supporting Flash video. The iPhone is in the same boat. So if you go to ESPN.com on the iPad, and it returns a normal version of the ESPN site, you won’t be able to view the videos. However, if it returned the iPhone optimized version, you would be able to view the videos.
My guess is that a lot of major sites are going to port their videos over to HTML5, and develop an iPad optimized version of their site. For some, that will be a simple as using the same site layout, but with HTML5 video. For others, they will design a completely new template to capitalize on the iPad’s touch interface. These latter solutions will take more time, and probably won’t be fully mature for many years.
But it will happen.
