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FaceBook just ditched FLASH for HTML5; but not completely, games will still use it

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source: https://code.facebook.com/posts/159906447698921

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We recently switched to HTML5 from a Flash-based video player for all Facebook web video surfaces, including videos in News Feed, on Pages, and in the Facebook embedded video player. We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform, but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.

From development velocity to accessibility features, HTML5 offers a lot of benefits. Moving to HTML5 best enables us to continue to innovate quickly and at scale, given Facebook’s large size and complex needs.

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take that, Adobe!

the more companies drop support for that back hole called FLASH, the better

but not all is rosy, as FB have experienced issues over the course of implementing it

In theory, most browsers in use support HTML5 video. However, in practice we noticed that a lot of the older browsers would simply perform worse using the HTML5 player than they had with the old Flash player. We saw more errors, longer loading times, and a generally worse experience.

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Another step towards Flash dying. Huzzah \o/ 

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Now we have to wait for the Facebook games to use HTML5. I mean seriously Flash is such a pain in the ass...

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All hail HTML5!

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source: https://code.facebook.com/posts/159906447698921

 

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take that, Adobe!

the more companies drop support for that back hole called FLASH, the better

but not all is rosy, as FB have experienced issues over the course of implementing it

 

 

Flash is still significantly faster than HTML5.

 

try playing 4k video on an old platform and it stutters like hell whereas Flash is smooth.

Yeah, we're all just a bunch of idiots experiencing nothing more than the placebo effect.
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I feel like I heard about his a week or so ago.

Good choice, flash sucks.

yes, the blog post is 5 days old
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what? Adobe said that everyone should abandon flash btw...

and they're still supporting it

either you support it properly, or take it in the woods never to be seen again

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im really not a fan of flash so this is nice.

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im really not a fan of flash so this is nice.

me neither. that's why it's off for me and only activate on sites when there's no way around it. it get a lot of broken flash signs as ads on youtube but whatever, if it shows up I think it counts as ad shown, it's the advertiser's fault that he gets a false positive ad-count cause he used flash

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