Robert Scheck a écrit :

Hello Marc,

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013, Marc Delisle wrote:

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Having a look at the current 4.0.x version, flashcanvas.swf is used only when the browser is detected to be Internet Explorer < v9, which does not support HTML 5 Canvas.

Note that features other than the Status monitor are using canvas.

I don't have an Internet Explorer, but what does that mean? I can not use features other than the status monitor if the IE is too old? And if so, why don't the other features use Flash then as well? Just being curious :)

Hi Robert, these are the only features that are using flashcanvas (on IE < v9): - Status monitor - Zoom search - Display chart

We currently don't plan on adding features that rely on this library but it's not a promise :)

Anyway, I assume just deleting the *.swf will break things, so how would you like to proceed? Would a message be possible, if somebody is using the Internet Explorer < v9 and *.swf was removed that the user gets a message like "Get a new browser"?

Not a good idea, IMO, because IE 9 is only offered on Windows Vista, 7 and Server 2008, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer#Internet_Explorer_9

How is your future perspective? I already thought about spending time to try to get the *.swf compiled from source. But that does not make sense if you decide to remove the Flash stuff in say half a year or so. Being at that point it would be also good to have some kind of a promise that no new additional Flash stuff is getting added - in case you are planning to stay with Flash for e.g. the whole phpMyAdmin 4.x lifecycle (thus longer). From what I can see, messing with Flash on the built-time level is not that nice as one would wish...

So please give me some impressions how things are going to go :)

Greetings, Robert