January 21st, 2010 at 22:00
Posted by Marc
Filed under: Internet | Tags: Google, HTML, HTML5, Youtube
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[blippr]YouTube[/blippr] have begun to roll out a new type of its video player, one that supports the new HTML5 standard. Currently at TestTube, the video service is offering users the advantage of the upcoming standard for HTML. YouTube have also implemented a new general layout.
HTML5 is a new standard for the internet. Among other things, it’s supporting drag-and-drop, video, audio, canvas drawing, APIs and so many more features. Youtube claim that an HTML5 compatible player was the number-one request from all of its users. HTML5 supports simple video embeds, YouTube has released a version of its player that runs on just HTML5. No flash, no javascript – just video (something that could largely boost YouTube’s spread over the internet.
As for the new layout, it’s been made more simplistic and easy to use – cutting out a lot of the crap from the old UI and improving it to something new.
It’s probably a swift move for [blippr]Google [/blippr]to switch. Not at the moment, as few people are currently able to run the HTML5 engine as their browser doesn’t support it (die IE6) – but I mean, it only works on [blippr]Safari[/blippr], [blippr]Chrome[/blippr], [blippr]Firefox[/blippr] 3.6+ or Chrome Frame for [blippr]Internet Explorer[/blippr].
Naturally there’s things it can’t do. Videos with advertising, videos with captions or annotations don’t work. It can’t support hover-over commands and there’s likely many problems that it’ll encounter. However, like I said – this’ll probably be a good way to speed up the website, and optimize – and probably make it easier to download videos.
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