I’m not clear on this.
Is the ipad able to show the videos that are embedded in various webpages? If so, how exactly does that work?
Yes.
If so, how exactly does that work?
Smoothly.
Okay, a bit more detail. YouTube encodes its videos in h.264 as well as Flash. It started doing so in 2007, when the original iPhone launched.
This is where you continually fail, truth. You keep telling us things you don't know. You have never USED an iPhone or an iPad but you claim to be expert enough to tell us that a $229 piece of junk has the same specs and functionality as the iPad, a device YOU HAVE NEVER USED. . . and repeat those claims when we shoot down our claims using the reviews and specs from your own sources to show you that it doesn't come close! I cannot, for example, find ANYTHING that corroborates your claim of an internal removable 32GB flash drive in addition to the external 32GB, to give a total 64GB... The specs only list 4GB internal. Its maker's specs claim it's expandable only to 32GB... NOT your claimed 64.
You claim equivalent specs. It isn't even close on the screen... The iPad's Is an LED backlit IPS 178° angle of view 9.7" diagonal 1024 x768 resolution high end capacitance multitouch screen display while your tablet you claim is its equal has a fluorescent lit 40° angle of view 8" diagonal 800x600 resistance non-multitouch display! Your tablet has a single 16.8 watt hour battery to drive a more power hungry screen and processor (estimated operation 5-6 hours) compared to the iPad's 25 Watt hour battery (proven operation time 12+ hours)! You say this $229 (plus $40 for more memory) is equal? I say it's a piece of crap. . . masquerading as a useable tablet. You get what you pay for, truth.
There are different methods of embedding objects, including videos, in web pages. Flash is only one of them. There's a "video" tag in HTML5.