Re: [Phpmyadmin-devel] Drop flashcanvas

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com wrote:

Hi all

After seeing [Debian bug about sourceless flash file][1], I went to looking why do we have this at all. It seems to be used for IE 8 and older to render charts as the browser does not have native support for canvas.

I've done a little bit of testing with IE 8 (using Browser Stack) and none of the rendering seems to work properly there:

• the GIS rendering ends up with javascript error showing nothing [*]
• the pie chart for profiling does not show areas
• other charts show different level of corruption

As nobody has complained about this so far, I believe it's better to simply drop this code than trying to fix it to work with this ancient browser. So here is [my pull request to do so][2].

+1