It doesn’t matter whether you blame Apple or Adobe for the lack of Flash support on the iPad and other iPhone OS devices, the end result is that consumers ultimately pay the price. It’s unfortunate, but Facebook wasn’t about to let the Apple/Adobe tiff put a damper on the social networking experience, no matter which device you’re rocking.
As such, it appeared as though Facebook had jumped on the HTML5 bandwagon, at least for its newest videos. Apple iPad owners who tap on a newer Facebook video are no longer greeted with a “Flash Player upgrade required” message, and instead the videos now launch in full-screen. HTML5 all the way, right?
Not so fast. While that was the initial conclusion, Facebook hasn’t actually made the switch to HTML5 compliance, and instead is linking out to the actual video transcoded to MP4 when it detects the Safari browser on the iPad. MacStories.net claims to have “confirmed this by uploading a video file to Facebook in WMV format (a non-iPad compatible video format) and then attempting to play it on the iPad. It played as an MP4 file.”
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Is Facebook Joining the HTML5 Revolution? Not Yet
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