iPhone’s Safari to render embedded YouTube videos (video)
Posted by Dave Merten 
May 9, 2008 at 2:22pm
Recently, BGR was working with the latest beta of iPhone Software v2.0 and found a YouTube plugin, for the mobile version of Safari, that will render YouTube movies embedded in webpages. This is not Flash supported though. Here is how it works.
When you come to a webpage with a YouTube video embedded, you tap on the video and the video is played through the iPhone’s proprietary YouTube application. Ironically though, it worked with every single video they tested, but it does not work on YouTube.com as that checks for an installed Flash player.
Demo playing a YouTube embedded video
Video courtesy of BGR
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