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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 2778 | Composr | core | public | 2016-08-13 18:56 | 2018-02-08 00:20 |
| Reporter | Chris Graham | Assigned To | Chris Graham | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 2778: Drop Flash support | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Tags | Risk: Deprecates functionality , Type: Standards compliance | ||||
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| Time estimation (hours) | 1 | ||||
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SoundManager can likely be replaced with pure HTML5. |
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https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/25/get-ready-to-say-goodbye-to-flash-in-2020/?ncid=rss |
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crossdomain.xml will go when Flash is removed, see default htaccess files for example. |
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https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-windows-timeline/ |
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Also we should remove the flash banner from our banners.zip file. |
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This is implemented (i.e. Flash is removed). 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. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2016-08-13 18:56 | Chris Graham | New Issue | |
| 2016-08-13 18:57 | Chris Graham | Tag Attached: Risk: Deprecates functionality | |
| 2016-08-13 19:44 | Chris Graham | Description Updated | |
| 2016-12-08 12:21 | Chris Graham | Tag Attached: Type: Standards compliance | |
| 2017-04-08 14:45 | Chris Graham | Relationship added | related to 2005 |
| 2017-04-28 14:27 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0005035 | |
| 2017-07-25 19:34 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0005173 | |
| 2017-09-23 17:46 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0005197 | |
| 2018-02-07 21:08 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0005462 | |
| 2018-02-07 23:13 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0005469 | |
| 2018-02-08 00:20 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0005470 | |
| 2018-02-08 00:20 | Chris Graham | Status | Not Assigned => Resolved |
| 2018-02-08 00:20 | Chris Graham | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2018-02-08 00:20 | Chris Graham | Assigned To | => Chris Graham |
