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Originally Posted by siralien View Post
I think that's crazy. Putting aside legal restrictions allowing non UK IP addresses access to the site, the service being used is simple flash based animation that one gets on YouTube and other sites. If the browser on the N810 cannot play this then certainly, from a user point of view, that's a bug. The browser is failing to provide access to the services it should.
The BBC may be using a proprietary Microsoft Active-X wrapper for flash which would prevent it from playing on anything but Microsoft.

The N810 has version 9 r31 of flash which is very capable. The bug if you will belongs to the BBC.
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