Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos (facebook.com) 76
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.
What About Farmville (Score:1)
From what I recall, the whole point in joining Facebook is to play Farmville. Have they come out with an HTML5 version of Farmville yet?
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No, https://www.zynga.com/blogs/ca... [zynga.com]
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You do realize that that only gets you past GRUB in unpatched systems, right? There are all sorts of ways to compromise the system without that if you've already got physical access to it. I'm sure you can find a contrived situation where it's a locked room, controlled situation, and an armed guard is right outside the door so you need to act quickly to do... What?
It doesn't mean you've decrypted the drive, the /home partition, the /data partition, or whatnot. Just insert a damned Live USB, boot to disk, an
Die flash, die! (Score:3)
Still a long way to go before we can be rid of the horrid thing, but this is one step closer.
Re:Die flash, die! (Score:5, Funny)
Same with facebook.
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And slashdot is different how?
The only people that are to be blamed for privacy violations on Facebook, are the posters themselves. They continually post inaine amount of shit, such as when they're taking a dump and picking their nose etc. Or posting pics of their meals.
If you don't know the difference between FB and Slashdot, Like this post to 100 others, and you'll recieve free money and blessings direct from God.
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Facebook is the new AOL?
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Facebook is the new AOL?
Very much so. I don't use it, but my wife does, ,and the chain letterish crap is just annoying .
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Thought part of way people left AOL. Was cause there is a whole lot more out there then AOL could provide. But for some reason lots of people want to go back to a single corner of the internet.
The folks who call their Browser "My Facebook" - Oh who am I kidding, they call their computer My Facebook..
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Facebook is the new AOL?
Very much so. I don't use it, but my wife does, ,and the chain letterish crap is just annoying .
However, that's just a function of her friends and will be with her on the internet no matter which service she uses.
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Whilst there are vast differences between Facebook and Slashdot, it would not be remiss to refer to Slashdot as "social media." We even have friends and foes, a journal, and a couple of ways to submit content. We've user generated content with comments that include personal information. I've organized a couple of meet-ups on here over the years.
It's more social media than we might like to admit. So isn't a forum... I dare say, "social media" is a stupid and vague term but I do believe Slashdot fits the defi
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Whilst there are vast differences between Facebook and Slashdot, it would not be remiss to refer to Slashdot as "social media."
Yes, although with a different outlook. I'm on here enough that for better or worse, it is a part of my social life. But for all the warts, its an intellectual mecca by comparison.
I knew enough about Facebook to avoid it, but after my sisters husband passed away, she moved to Florida and suggested that we sign up for Facebook. I passed on it, but signed the wife up. She mostly reads, and her and friends share the pet pix and videos, but the intellectual level is pretty low.
Here at least, we can have s
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Oh, there's probably a couple of kernel updates that you might want to do on her laptop. They're security related. You have to change the notice level to show things rated 5 (potentially unstable, evil, and dangerous!!! - they're harmless but she will need to reboot to load the kernel into memory until 4.4 is released). ;-)
The sad part is, I have a terrible memory. It's just some things stick and it's usually not the useful stuff that sticks. I too have no Facebook account even though my children nag me. I'
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I post a single picture with the caption "After and before".
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Still a long way to go before we can be rid of the horrid thing, but this is one step closer.
I haven't used it in ages. When I come to a site like the BBC that says something like "Your technology is out of date." If I feel charitable I write them and tell them to get their shit together. Regardless of whether I write them or not, I close the site.
Facebook (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.
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This is Slashdot. You should have 512 friends.
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AC is right, this was even on the news [theonion.com].
Really? (Score:2)
Where? When?
Because my Facebook account still requires me to click-to-enable-plugin to view the videos.
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It happened about 2 weeks ago for me.
finally (Score:1)
About damn time!
"user engagement has gone up" (Score:2)
"user engagement has gone up"
I searched the link for the word "engagement" to no avail. I still don't get it. Users are getting married more or they engage further in Facebook but how?
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The real question is - has Facebook EVER made a change where they subsequently didn't claim that "user engagement has gone up"?
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Facebook is heavily into A/B testing, so I imagine they've made many hundreds of changes by now where they didn't make that claim. For the changes that didn't pan out, they quietly roll them back and never mention them at all.
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I knew that Marvel and DC had run out of vilains, but this is getting ridiculous.
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"user engagement has gone up" really means because flashblock doesn't work in HTML5, your data-plan gets hammered harder and our ad revenue has gone up.
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You had 24 hours to uncheck "Will you marry Facebook, inc.?" in your settings. If you failed to do so, you're engaged to it. I think they'll be doing a mass wedding next year.
Your only hope now is to hurry up and pre-emptively start divorce proceedings before the prenuptial agreement gets added to the terms of service...
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You forgot a word: "I care NOT deeply." ;)
I sense a great disturbance in the force (Score:5, 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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Considering that Vista is 9 years old now, it's not that surprising that the remaining 8% of users aren't well supported. But in any case, IE8 supports XP and HTML 5 video.
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Considering that Vista is 9 years old now, it's not that surprising that the remaining 8% of users aren't well supported. But in any case, IE8 supports XP and HTML 5 video.
XP does (if using Firefox/Chrome), IE8 does not [caniuse.com]
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VIsta has IE 9. It was the 1st browser with HTML 5 support outside of Chrome. Still limited with many things like WebGL and CSS 3.1 compared to Edge/IE 11, but it does support mpeg4 and HTML 5 canvas for videos in IE 9. Nothing much else
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engagement (Score:5, Informative)
"Facebook reports that user engagement has gone up since the switch was made."
No, this is absolutely total fucking bullshit. Engagement isn't "up" because of the switch from Flash to HTML5. Average end users wouldn't even know the difference. Why is engagement really "up"? Because they changed the god damn controls around. When playing a video, clicking on it no longer stops the fucking video, but instead takes over the whole god damn browser window with some video player playlist bullshit that nobody asked for. To stop a video now, you have to find the small pause button in the corner, rather than just being able to click anywhere. Give it a couple weeks for people to get pissed off enough to remember this, and their video player usage will tank again.
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Is that inherent to HTML5, or programmer-controlled?
I ask because both YT and FB use HTML5, but YT is "auto-play and click anywhere to pause", but FB is "click-to-play and click-the-pause-button"
Anyway, standalone media players are click-the-pause-button, so it won't be that difficult to adjust.
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In general, I wish people would be much more careful about how they use any metrics. The problem is, if you're lazy and/or stupid, you're just going to pick a readily available metric that sounds like it measures what you want to know, and then you're going to run with it. If I want to know what people want and like, I measure what they click on. If I want to know if a programmer is good, I measure how many lines of code he writes. If I want to know what the best political decision would be, I look at t
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If you measured the number of lines of code that I have written then you'd assume I was a good programmer and you'd be wrong. I know this because I hired good programmers who cleaned up my work and eventually rewrote the entire thing. I did, however, have *many* lines of code.
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Errr. Is this something related to your browser because I haven't experience this at all. And I have friend shitposting videos of their worthless pets all the time.
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"Facebook reports that user engagement has gone up since the switch was made."
No, this is absolutely total fucking bullshit.
With Flash, it was easy to block it wholesale. With HTML5? Not so much.
Welcome back to punching monkeys.
Remind me... (Score:1)
Old news (Score:5, Informative)
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They've been replaced by the folks in Marvel.
Does this mean they've fixed the "black screen"? (Score:2)
Wow (Score:2)
I would care deeply about this, if only I had a Facebook account.
one feature missing (Score:2)
Acceleration (Score:2)
Google, could you please be next? (Score:2)
Now ripping off youtube videos will be way faster! (Score:2)
Imagine all the money they'll save in processing power no longer having to convert videos people have ripped off from Youtube into flash video formats. :D