YouTube, HTML5 and the new intriguing Video Page
by George T on Jan 22 2010 at 00:37 
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In case you live in another planet than Earth, YouTube is experimenting with some changes that will shape the future of the way we experience on-line video. First and foremost, HTML5.
-”Just hold on a minute..”, you might say. “Isn’t that the new..?”
-Yes, it is.
-”But is this backwards compatible with my old-dusty-and-almost-gone-forever Internet Explorer 6?”
Nop, is the answer. Well, the truth is YouTube hasn’t switched over using the new <video> tag of HTML5 permanently, but you can have a sneak peek on what YouTube would look like riding the Horse 5 (==HTML5). You can opt in by visiting youtube.com/html5. You should give it a try.
Apart from that, YouTube is trying out an experimental re-design of the Video Page, which, in my opinion, was about time! Take a look at this example over here. How does it feel?
P.S. Check out this HTML5 Canvas Experiment by Sebastian Deutsch.
tags: design, html5, ie6, layout, video, youtubeshort url: http://bit.ly/6Dmyb7
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