News & Rumors, BlackBerry Apps

YouTube Mobile goes HTML5 for BlackBerry 7 devices

by Bla1ze

on 2 Oct 2011 03:42 PM

If you have a BlackBerry 7 device and frequently visit Youtube, you likely noticed a change in the formatting. Yes, Youtube has now rolled out their HTML5 layout for BlackBerry 7 devices. Of course, this does come much later then other platforms but either way it's nice to see it being implemented finally and much of that can be credited to the work that was done on the BlackBerry 7 browser by RIM and their Torch Mobile browser team.

Sadly, if you're not running BlackBerry 7 you are indeed stuck with the older mobile layout and won't be able to take advantage of the higher quality streaming and better formatting Youtube now offers. But you can add that to the list of reasons why you need a new BlackBerry.

Thanks, @SirPedro83!

Filed Under: News & Rumors, BlackBerry Apps; Tags: BlackBerry, BlackBerry 7, Youtube

24 Comments

Posted by kentvd Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Awesome! First

Posted by RoseBud68 Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Dam to bad this doesn't work for the OS6 was well.

Posted by rkopsie Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

My friend has Os 6 and this works on it

Posted by J_K_Resnick Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

been waiting for this!

Posted by xillentz Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Does this mean that .... VIDEOS DONT NEED TO BE OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE DEVICES?!

Posted by Bla1ze Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Ya, basically speaking.

Posted by madx80h Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Bla1ze - really? If so, that alone might be worth the upgrade from my 9800. Most music comes up "Not available on mobile!" which is extremely frustrating. Can anyone confirm this?

Posted by shane8750 Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Can't say this is the case. It formats the pages nice, but still loads the .3gp format in the native bb player, this is not html5 video, but just html5 mobile layout. So this should work on OS6 also, if you want html5 video on bb7, you still need to load desktop site, with html5 beta turned on, and this works :)

Posted by bulls2213 Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Truth.

Posted by Matr00 Monday, Oct 03, 2011 237 days ago

Right, and the desktop html5 version of youtube works also on the OS6 browser (on my 9700 a bit too slow, but the videos are nice)

Posted by stealthfox Monday, Oct 03, 2011 237 days ago

^^This. I don't see the point of HTML5 on OS7 if its still going to load in the native BB Player. What's the advantage.

Posted by MysticMeg Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

This was a surprise that made me fairly happy!!! :)

Posted by ChaseJ Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

MAC MILLER!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by chanpisan Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

noticed this for awhile,awesome and easy to comment,browse,more friendly ui

Posted by rexrim Sunday, Oct 02, 2011 237 days ago

Good news for blackberry 7 user ! Thanks :)

Posted by SIRPEDRO83 Monday, Oct 03, 2011 237 days ago

I look at YouTube on just about a daily basis so when I saw this I thought something was wrong but it was cool how everything was showing up so much faster and clearer and faster, or so it seems to me. Thanks again for the shout out Bla1ze

Posted by stillevil Monday, Oct 03, 2011 237 days ago

No BIS support so what use of it on the road?

Posted by boldkeyboardholic Monday, Oct 03, 2011 236 days ago

have BIS and the layout like the pic is showing.

Posted by shlee Monday, Oct 03, 2011 237 days ago

Im glad this topic had come to the surface. I do like the design however functioning hits an all time low. Videos on my 4G bold 9900 (Tmo) Look so horrible Im almost embarrassed to share them with anyone else. Am I missing something here? IS there an optimization that I was supposed to do? Seriously though. Wow, crappy