YouTube mobile site gets HTML5 support

on 07/09/2010, filed in Home > Computers

Video site YouTube recently revealed that its revamped mobile site will come with HTML5 support, not to mention the higher video quality and a tweaked user interface which we covered earlier. This is due to the proliferation of better mobile hardware, especially hardware that come with HTML5 compliant browsers. We missed out on video tagging in our previous post, and with HTML5 support, both iPad and iPhone users can check it out directly without relying on Apple’s questionable YouTube app.

YouTube: is a video-sharing website where users can upload videos. It is currently (7/2012) the largest such site, and was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who all worked at PayPal before. While it mainly featured movies from regular folks (and some illegal user uploads) at the beginning, but eventually YouTube grabbed enough market share to attract higher quality content over the years. Now, there is something for everyone, and YouTube continues to push for high-quality content, while keeping the support from amateur video-makers. The company was acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.6B.

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