Posted by Jed Lewison on Wed Jun 4, 2008 at 3:49 AM Pacific

YouTube changes

Just a fair warning -- this post has nothing to do with politics or the 2008 presidential campaign. Instead, it's a mini-rant against YouTube. Apparently, last night, they changed the way their players appear in video windows. The way things used to work, when you had a smaller player (like the ones in the sidebar), all the elements on the player would scale down.

Now, not only don't those elements scale down, but the YouTube watermark doesn't scale either, so on the small players it ends up covering a large chunk of the video window. Moreover, I think the watermark is a bit more opaque than it used to be.

All in all, it's definitely not a step forward and I can't figure out why YouTube is doing it. Maybe it's time to start exploring other video services? The problem though is that YouTube has the biggest audience. Perhaps I'll just have to start cross-posting videos over there. I wish I understood what they were up to.

YouTube changes

Just a fair warning -- this post has nothing to do with politics or the 2008 presidential campaign. Instead, it's a mini-rant against YouTube. Apparently, last night, they changed the way their players appear in video windows. The way things used to work, when you had a smaller player (like the ones in the sidebar), all the elements on the player would scale down.

Now, not only don't those elements scale down, but the YouTube watermark doesn't scale either, so on the small players it ends up covering a large chunk of the video window. Moreover, I think the watermark is a bit more opaque than it used to be.

All in all, it's definitely not a step forward and I can't figure out why YouTube is doing it. Maybe it's time to start exploring other video services? The problem though is that YouTube has the biggest audience. Perhaps I'll just have to start cross-posting videos over there. I wish I understood what they were up to.

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