Now Facebook Video Can Load Through HTML5 by Default
Facebook Inc. announced today that all of its videos will load through HTML5 by default. Like Facebook Many other tech giants are working to kill off Adobe Flash due to the format’s vast bugs and security flaws.
“We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform,” Facebook front-end engineer Daniel Baulig wrote in a blog post, “but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.”
“We decided to initially launch the HTML5 player to only a small set of browsers, and continuously roll out to more browsers, versions, and operating systems as we improved it and fixed small bugs,” Baulig said.
Not only did launching the HTML5 video player make development easier, but it also improved the video experience...