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Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos (facebook.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the flash-in-the-dust-pan dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook announced that it officially replaced Flash with HTML5 for its video player. They made the change because of security reasons, but developers also found it easier to work with — it led to quicker turnarounds for site-wide changes, and had better integration with code testing platforms. Facebook reports that user engagement has gone up since the switch was made.

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  1. Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Facebook and Google are organs of US intelligence and nobody should be using them.

    As a matter of fact, both of these firms probably save the NSA millions of dollars a year in intelligence analysis. Before FB and Google, link analysis was traditionally a very labor intensive, manual process performed by some snot-nosed twenty-something fresh out of Yale.

  2. Re:Die flash, die! by epyT-R · · Score: 4, Funny

    Same with facebook.

  3. I sense a great disturbance in the force by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Funny

    As in a million grandmas and diehards still running XP thinking E stands for Internet noticed in terror their facebooks stopped playing videos and were silenced.

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