New YouTube Mobile Site Handles HTML5 Quite Nicely

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Goodbye, YouTube apps on my iPhone and Android devices. The fine folks at YouTube have put together a nicely revamped mobile site at m.youtube.com that works with a fair amount of smartphones, leveraging HTML5 videos instead of Flash videos.

The new mobile site is currently accessible on iPhones and Android phones and, according to a company blog post, is “really fast” while adding “more touch-friendly elements,” playlist creation, and several other features that are present on the full YouTube site.

Here’s a video for your infotainment:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGT8ZCTBoBA]

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