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title: Facebook Adds HTML5 Video
description: Facebook introduces HTML5 video for iPhone and iPad playback as part of their mobile HTML5 implementation, though Flash still outperforms HTML5 on other mobile browsers at this early stage.
canonical: https://videojs.org/blog/facebook-adds-html5-video
tags:
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authors: [steve-heffernan]
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Among other new HTML5 features, Facebook has an HTML5 video player for playback on the iPhone and iPad. They say that on other mobile browsers, Flash outperformed the HTML5 implementation. That&rsquo;s a little discouraging to hear, but HTML5 video is still young.

[Read the full post](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/using-html5-today/438532093919)

In contrast, check out this video of HTML5 vs. Flash on a Mac. Spoiler: HTML5 wins.

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