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Unfortunately the technology still limits this in many cases.

• donatj 8y ago
  I genuinely don’t believe it. They’re not using the native video player in their apps. If they can overlay controls they can overlay annotations.
  • mikewhy 8y ago
    What about the mobile site?
    • kibwen 8y ago
      There's no NPAPI plugin required for desktop users to view annotations. All of YouTube works using standardized web tech, and mobile browsers and desktop browsers are the same underlying engines with different chrome. There's no technical reason why annotations couldn't work on the mobile site, though from a UI perspective you'd need to size them appropriately for fingers to interact with. It's not that Google can't, it's that they simply don't want to.
      • untog 8y ago
        That's not quite true. If you want to view the video in fullscreen on iOS it'll just show the content of the video tag and nothing else. They're working on Fullscreen API support, though.
    • seba_dos1 8y ago
      Same.