Saturday, July 16, 2011

Looks Like a Much Needed Video Appearance Upgrade on Youtube this week

After years of using their standard Youtube player, that many have copied since inception Youtube hasn't really changed the look of it over the years. The colors at least anyways with the light gray and red everything else.

Logging on earlier this week I noticed that all the video players are now a black color on the borders and much more sleek than they once were. A refreshing change I must say. An actual "improvement" that makes some sense compared to all the other random improvements they toss out every few months. Like the overly confusing new search system they use, or just the fact that they haven't improved the comments on videos in years. They still are more of a hassle to read on videos with tons of comments than they are worth.

While the new video look is on the Youtube site you can see, I have noticed that it hasn't transferred to embedded videos just yet, although they have changed those too. They now allow you to set the pixel width on embedded videos manually so they don't stretch off the page on places like a golf pda gps...blog posts. :)

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