YouTube Rolls Out New iPad-specific Updates
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Google quietly rolled out a new version of its mobile site yesterday, with a special attention to its iOS and Android interfaces. Like with the previous version released more than a month ago, YouTube’s upgrades are meant to offer a mobile experience much closer to the desktop version.
The site heavily relies on HTML5 in order to use standardized ways to deliver videos, and to avoid the use of Flash – as most of you know, Flash is not available on iOS devices, and the amount of processing power it requires to deliver videos on Android makes it an inadequate choice for these devices.
The new mobile site offers many of the features of the desktop site, such as the ability to search and browse videos on the fly, the ability to rate videos, etc… Compared to the previous update, the new version also offers options like sharing, and best of all, it now features an HQ option, in order to watch high quality videos instead of the standard, low quality videos previously offered.
Other enhancements include a more intuitive and more responsive search interface, as well as the ability to easily read and post comments related to a video, a feature that took YouTube a long time to get right. More screenshots are available below the fold.
Old interface vs. new: note the changes to the overall interface, and the introduction of the “Share” and “HQ” options
Search interface – Related videos
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