YouTube has upgraded their fullscreen feature of their video player, which is true full screen using the flash 9 player (no cheezy huge pop up windows here). One of the truely nice aspects of this upgrade is jumping back and fourth between full screen and windowed mode requires no break in the video play back. Cool stuff.
On a related note, good little video related to the youtube player HERE.
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[...] The player has made a dent in the market already. It helps that MySpace and YouTube both require Flash 9. It’s all far faster. The error messaging is much better, meaning when something breaks you’ll actually be able to diagnose why (as opposed to the old guess and check method). [...]
BIG SPACESHIP LABS / » Migrating from AS2 to AS3 added these pithy words on Aug 10 07 at 8:22 am[...] of adoption was greatly helped by MySpace upgrading to Flash 9 in response to a security fix, and YouTube upgrading to Flash 9 for the fullscreen video feature. Adoption of such a rapid scale, by companies as significant as MySpace and YouTube, should act as [...]
Flash 9 - The case for the client added these pithy words on Aug 21 07 at 6:04 pm[...] Flash 9 to operate, but this is a far smaller problem when you consider YouTube and MySpace already upgraded to Flash [...]
the ninimedia mag v.2 » Actionscript CS3 Autocode feature added these pithy words on Apr 23 08 at 2:24 amFullscreen Flash is definitely a great development for online video. They rolled this out a few months ago, actually, and now I see that quite a few of the others have added it as well. The seamless jump to fullscreen is definitely the greatest part.
We will be rolling this out on Votisodes soon, too.
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Jul 19 07 at
11:08 pm