Watch YouTube videos within Safari on your iPad (HTML5)

So, I queued up and got an iPad. (as regular readers of this blog will be delighted to hear)

Of course, Safari on the iPad doesn't support Flash as just a small number of people have recently noted. For this reason, there's a separate YouTube application which deals with viewing YouTube video content.

But, in fact, you don't have to use this. YouTube are now re-encoding their videos to HTML5, which mobile Safari does support. So, by signing up for YouTube's HTML5 beta programme (a simple matter of clicking a link for existing users) you can then view YouTube videos within web pages themselves.

I've found it to be fairly stable, with the occasional crash - but a far more immersive experience than having to switch out of your browser to a separate app each time.

Carlos