I've just heard of this news that is quite old and still has some time till action is taken, but what will happen to e621 regarding Flash content on the site in the future?

Ah, this thread again. We won't do jack shit. The files can be downloaded still and there are standalone flash players available that don't require a browser to work.

The standalone Adobe Flash Player Projector is also usually much better than the browser plugins anyway.

I see. So it isn't a big deal. Sorry to bug and thanks for the prompt response!

NotMeNotYou said:
Ah, this thread again. We won't do jack shit. The files can be downloaded still and there are standalone flash players available that don't require a browser to work.

The standalone Adobe Flash Player Projector is also usually much better than the browser plugins anyway.

Do you plan on supporting HTML5 Canvas?

Leon_Neon said:
Do you plan on supporting HTML5 Canvas?

I can't point to a source, but I'm pretty sure they've said that they won't be supporting the HTML5 stuff in one of the many threads on flash being discontinued.

I could be wrong but I think it's also a limitation of the booru software they're using, that it can only really handle JPG, PNG, SWF and WebM, with vast changes to the code needed in order to support other formats. It's also why, again could be wrong, that they can't update posts with better versions of images, instead needing to flag inferior versions and upload a better version as a new post.

Canvas support would be very tricky. We might support it in the future but sandboxing it safely is a pita.
If this is done we might look into a JavaScript based flash player.
However none of this is confirmed and we are under no obligation to fulfill these two ideas. It is just some stuff we might look into one day.