With so many devices, desktop, mobile, Flash, no Flash it's hard to know exactly what the result of embedding a 360˚ panorama into a Facebook Timeline will produce on playback. I've used as many devices and operating systems as I can lay my hands on to produce a status update for Facebook.
This is the post I used to test the status of playback is https://www.facebook.com/tonyredhead/posts/10153446509927939
This is the result of testing the above post on the various devices and browsers on 6/4/2016
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Device |
Browser/App |
Result |
|
Desktop OSX El Capitan |
Chrome
[with Flash] |
Working |
|
|
Firefox [with Flash] |
Working |
|
|
Firefox [no Flash] |
No, error message |
|
|
Safari [with Flash] |
Working |
|
|
Safari [no Flash] |
No, blank white screen |
|
Desktop Windows 7 Pro |
Chrome [with
Flash] |
Working |
|
Desktop Windows 10 Pro |
Chrome 49.0.2623 [with Flash] |
Working |
|
|
Firefox 45.0.1 [with Flash] |
Working |
|
|
Windows Edge Browser |
Working |
|
iOS iPHone 6 [no Flash] |
Facebook
App |
Working |
|
|
Chrome
[mobile site] |
Working |
|
|
Chrome [full site] |
No, blank white screen |
|
|
Safari
[mobile site] |
Working |
|
|
Safari [full site] |
No, blank white screen |
|
iOS iPad Air 2 [no Flash] |
Facebook
App |
Working |
|
|
Chrome
[mobile site] |
Working |
|
|
Chrome [full site] |
No, blank white screen |
|
|
Safari
[mobile site] |
Working |
|
|
Safari [full site] |
No, blank white screen |
|
Android Smartphone Galaxy S6 |
Facebook
App |
Working |
|
|
Chrome |
Working |
|
|
Firefox |
Working |
|
Android Galaxy Tab A |
Facebook
App |
Working |
|
|
Chrome
[mobile site] |
Working |
|
|
Firefox
[mobile site] |
Working |
|
|
Firefox [full site] |
No, error message |
If you have any systems not mentioned above I'd appreciate it if you could provide some details so I can add them to the table.
Thanks to Mirko Mannarino for the Windows 7 Chrome feedback
Thanks to Carsten Richter for the Windows 7 Firefox feedback
Thanks to Keith Martin for the OSX El Capitan feedback
Thanks to Florian Frey for the Windows 10 Pro feedback
