new YouTube controls
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- stewdio
YouTube just rolled out a redesign of their video player controls. Any UI people care to critique? Not sure if the new controls show up in embedded content yet.
- e-pill0
its kinda nice.. sorta.. is this what html5 is? or is this still flash? not caring if its apple compatible.. just asking for my lack of web knowledge.
- clearThoughts0
groundbreaking
- ukit0
I like it. Almost as much as I like this
- zaq0
I wish they change the color of the progress bar. It's too distractive.
- e-pill0
i dont like the roll-overs on the controls expanding.. the layout of the volume now to the left is distracting, i liked where it was on the right hand side.. although its expansion in a horizontal position is sleeker.
i watched a few videos that normally have adverts pop ups but now i dont see any.. that is a nice change to not see it..
- mg330
It's funny to me how often "progress" can be defined as messing up a perfectly good thing...
- quack0
i can't believe they made the play button make the movie play in reverse
- SteveJobs0
i like, but all that white space in the middle is distracting. it's as though they intentionally pushed the buttons/elements to either side to make space for somefink.
- bored2death0
Shit's tight, son.
- kult0
Why... is the scrubber outside of that giant empty white box.
- lukus_W0
Why didn't they build the time track bar into the main control? .. they could have fitted into the bit that's been depressed.
- e-pill0
@ lukus_W
the theme music in the video above is from Charlie Brown Theme.
- UKV0
I think YouTube has the cheesiest players i've seen to date, and wish they would ditch them all together. Loose the gradients. The drop shadows. The Faux 3d. The plasticky gray (*yuck!).
- stewdio0
@UKV Yea. When it comes to design I prefer Vimeo.
Speaking of...
http://vimeo.com/stewdio[How telling. My last 3 videos are of Rubik's Cubes.]
- agreed - vimeo is much better.
The UI designer of vimeo has claimed Flickr ripped his designBannedKappa
- agreed - vimeo is much better.
- SPECTACULAR0
TIMELINED:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/629986…
- stewdio0
I didn't even think to check the Filter since it's been the same old YouTube here in the UK up until about an hour ago. I guess this has already been rolled out for other areas?
- tOki0
It's a bit crap..why move the progress bar to over the video??? zz
Vimeo is great because it has the functionality but then it disappears when you move your mouse out of the player area..
- stewdio0
How about this QBN... How about automatic AJAX timeline searches that occur as you're filling out a new Broadcast? Sort of like how Digg begins searching for similar items as you're creating a new post. That would be helpful.
- filter is useless, stick 'site:qbn.com' at the start of yr google querykingsteven
- But being the first to spew "timeline" into a thread is like getting a gold star...UKV