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Earlier we saw this week YouTube favoring Flash over HTML5 but now YouTube has introduced it’s yet another advancement as YouTube’s mobile site. The new m.youtube.com has a cluster of new features including high quality video playback using HTML5.The Youtube mobile site can be accessed with any mobile with a browser that supports HTML5. Mobile phones and tablets like iPhone, Android phones and iPad come under this category.

The mobile Youtube site has been optimized for the small screen. Not only the video quality is made better but also the web-app’s interface has been improved to look like a native app, with big, touch screen button icons. There are more exciting features that are not in the YouTube iPhone app such as the library is easier to navigate, the search box suggests results as you type; videos can also be bookmarked like web pages etc.

You can watch the demonstration video of the html5 version of the YouTube here.

~Contributed by Uzair Danish
[Source: Youtube]


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