Higher Quality Tubes

While some companies already offer amazing and fast loading video quality at a price, for the regular user YouTube’s video quality is average at best. This is set to change, however, with the arrival of new higher quality video formats at YouTube.

There are two new formats being introduced, known as format 6 and format 18. Eventually there will be a link to switch between the formats on the YouTube video page as there are for a restricted number of files already, but currently you will need to suffix your (newer) videos’ query string with either &fmt=6 or &fmt=18. The difference in video settings is as follows:

Unfortunately, there is currently no easy way to embed these new video formats into a web page. But rest assured, as soon as there is, we’ll let you know!

Last week, Apple released a new version of the iPhone / iPod Touch software that gives web applications a larger presence on the device. As a web developer, there are lots of things you can do to make your website not just iPhone compatible, but feel like it was designed with the iPhone in mind.

In this week’s tip, I have a look at a few quick wins which you can do to make your website iPhone friendly in less than an hour.