#2778 - Drop Flash support
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By Chris Graham
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| Identifier | #2778 |
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| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Drop Flash support |
| Status | Completed |
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Risk: Deprecates functionality (custom) Type: Standards compliance (custom) |
| Handling member | Chris Graham |
| Addon | core |
| Description | This is more of a future note, I don't think we should do it yet.
But at some point we will remove: 1) flash banners 2) the Comcode flash tag 3) the flash media renderer And generally make sure Flash is erased from any references anywhere. I think we should only do it when the last major browser has dropped support for the player, or if Adobe stops maintaining the plugin with security fixes. Up until then Flash still has legacy value, e.g. for people to embed old flash games or ads. |
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| Funded? | No |
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I have made some exceptions though. I am not removing flash from integrated utility code that uses it as a fallback. This includes: jwplayer, soundmanager, plupload, mediaelement. Flash will be removed from these if these projects themselves remove it and when we upgrade. Having flash as a fallback for old browsers is still a valid use-case.