Then choose any of the other embedded media scattered
across the web that hasn't already catered to iOS.
The thing is that most of the cases where I may want to check something out is already made to work with iOS.
I guess we think differently of what "real web" is. For me it is built on HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
For me, it's any content I may find interesting. I don't care what format it's presented in. You're making a technical distinction, I'm making a content-based one.