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    <p>I'm working on improving the experience of a site by adding in iPad support. This includes support for videos. Our client is pushing towards a YouTube model for storing and serving videos -- great for us! I originally planned to implement the use of YouTube's new HTML5-supporting <code>&lt;iframe&gt;</code> snippets. This offloads the device detection to YouTube and makes embedding a video a cinch as we don't need to worry about compatibility. It turns out the the CMS we're using, <a href="http://www.sitecore.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sitecore CMS</a>, strips out <code>&lt;iframe&gt;</code>'s from our WYSIWYG editor. After a lot of research it looks like its a bit hard to not make this happen.</p> <p>Fast forward to now... I tested out the old style <code>&lt;embed&gt;</code> code and discovered even though iOS doesn't support Flash, these embeds seem to work fine on iPad. Some Stack Overflow research led me to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2578807/why-does-only-youtube-embeds-work-on-ipad/2578822#2578822">this post</a> which suggests its because of the YouTube plugin <code>/System/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/YouTubePlugIn.webplugin</code> on iPads that allows for the playback.</p> <p>My question is, is there any documentation that this is the exact reason? I'd like to go by this as why we can use the regular <code>&lt;embed&gt;</code> code but I need to back it up with proof via a document for iOS. Is this YT plug-in on every iPad by default, or do users need to manually install it? This seems like a great solution considering our unfortunate incompatibility with an <code>&lt;iframe&gt;</code> but I need to support the use of the <code>&lt;embed&gt;</code>'s with hard facts. Thanks in advance.</p>
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