It looks like Google is testing a new layout that makes watching a video seem much more like YouTube. The picture above shows the new layout which I surprisingly like. The page isn’t covered with a big black area when you are viewing those small movies!
If you want to try it out yourself there are just a few simple steps:
- Find a video that you want to watch. This is a good example
. - Right-click on this link and copy it to your clipboard. It is some JavaScript code that will set a cookie so if you left-click on the link it won’t work.
- After the page has finished loading just paste the code you copied in Step 2 into the address bar and press Enter.
- On the right-side of the screen you should see a link to test out the new Google Video page:
I think they would probably give people the option to choose which layout they want. I guess if the video is small then there really isn’t any point to filling the whole screen with a black background since the user can just hit the button in the bottom-right corner of the video player to see it in full-screen. It gets a thumbs up from me.
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You’re wrong. If you enter javascript:setCookie(’np’,’old’);window.location.reload(); , you get the ‘illegal character’ error in the Firefox JS console. Instead, you should use:
javascript:setCookie(”np”,”old”);window.location.reload();
Even after fixing that, I don’t see a link to activate the new layout.
Quality… The quality of the Video…
The Bigger the Worse the Quality…
Thanks for pointing that out. The issue is that the text is being formatted instead of being recognized as code for some reason. It is turning the apostrophes into what looks like an apostrophe but is actually different. Just delete the apostrophes in the code and retype them in.
-Ryan
There we go I made it so you can just right-click to copy the code. It is much easier and doesn’t get messed up by improper formatting.
-Ryan
Loosing the video when scrolling is the anti-cool. How are you supposed to read all the deep and insightful comments?
Thanks, I’m going to have nightmares now.
Hey, I know that guy!
(The guy in the video is a friend of mine. We call him “Big Ry.” He’s hilarious
OMG Big Ry is a horrible Fat Shakira.
Isn’t work the code… maybe ‘couse my video google are in spanish?
Doesn’t work for me neither. I use polish version of google video.
I would just keep it simple to the usual current set-up. I’m still not very used to the new layout.