Facebook Videos are not HTML5 [Confirmed by Facebook]
We are hearing a lot of buzz about Facebook going HTML5, but the reality seems to be a bit different. To begin with, it was reported that iPad is playing Facebook videos, and people straight away speculated that Facebook has now gone HTML5.
However, according to ReadWriteWeb, the story is a bit different. Facebook contacted ReadWriteWeb via email, and this is what that email says:
All new videos are encoded in h264 format, so we’re playing videos natively in the iPad since it supports h264-encoded videos. It will load them full-screen, similar to what it does for YouTube videos.
So, that means Flash is still well and alive, and fortunately, web has found another way to deal with Apple-Flash war.
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