The world's most popular social media website, Facebook, has recently announced that it will only be using HTML5 in all its videos as the default coder instead of Adobe Flash Player. The new codes will be used across all browsers.

Using HTML5 as the default coder for its videos will enable the social media network to innovate at a faster rate and on a bigger scale.

The change is necessary because of the growing size and complexity of Facebook which cannot be handled effectively using Flash Player. Even Adobe, the creator behind Flash, has admitted the limitations of the video coder. It has a lot of vulnerabilities and is being constantly targeted by malware programs.

According to the official statement from Facebook, the decision to use HTML5 was initially limited to only a few browsers. The plan was to continuously integrate the new player to greater number of browsers, versions and various operating systems.

As what was pointed out by Daniel Baulig of Facebook in one of his blog posts, those who are using modern PC computers are likely already being served HTML 5-based videos.

On the other hand, the older browser versions are unable to handle the new video player well. As a result, it takes longer time for the videos to load on those devices.

Eventually, the bugs and glitches will hopefully be fixed as browsers are updated and as Facebook release new patches for its HTML5 player.