Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)

During Monday’s Morning trade, Shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), gained 0.70% to $104.77.

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Facebook has moved to HTML5 by default in all browsers for web videos that appears on its News Feed, Pages and the embedded Facebook video player, according to (Zdnet)

Setting Adobe’s Flash aside for video marks a noteworthychange for the company, which built its first HTML5 video player five years ago. Back then it only supported iPhones and iPads, but retained Flash for other mobile browsers due to it outperforming HTML5.

Despite seeing promise in HTML5 for video, Facebook has outlined the numerous challenges that have kept it from making a complete switch from Flash across all platforms.

“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,” Facebook engineer Daiel Baulig wrote in a blog post last week.

“That’s why we waited until recently to ship the HTML5 player to all browsers by default, with the exception of a small set of them,” he added.

Adobe has also declared its transition away from Flash Player and that it’s working on a new HTML5 video player. That came a few months after Facebook’s chief security officer called upon Adobe to set an “end-of-life” for Flash. (Zdnet) Report

Facebook. The social network was the top smartphone app in 2015, with more than 126 million average unique users in the U.S., according to Nielsen. YouTube was second, while Facebook’s Messenger app was third.

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