Mobile to PC redirects: YouTube gets it halfway right
A quick thought, after I just clicked a link on Facebook to a mobile YouTube video (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2UeKKac-s), and it ties in with my previous post on handling mobile/PC redirects. YouTube gets it almost right.
My only gripe is that it did not automatically detect, from my User Agent string, that I’m on a PC. However, it got the rest of the basics straight:
- Even though I arrived on the YouTube mobi site, there was a big and prominent link to view the same page in a desktop version.
- Being a geek, I didn’t notice the desktop link at first, and in stead, deleted the “m.” part of the URL, figuring it will (should) probably work. By some miracle, it did.
Google, you’re doing it (almost) right.