Why does SMF create post have an Insert Flash button?

[NotATether]

Go to the page that lets you create a reply or topic, and look at the button at the far left below the bold button. That button let's you insert Flash into posts. But does it still do anything, or is it a no-op? I think it's a security risk to embed arbitrary Flash objects inside posts because they can run code that mess with the Bitcointalk page.

There are also another quark in the composer. I have to put the text align BBcode outside of any other formatting, or the other formatting doesn't apply. It's a little inconvenient but I also know this isn't going to be addressed any time soon, I just wanted to express my frustration with it.

[jackg]

Do people actively use flash player for graphics now? I thought it was a security risk at least to leave it on your machine (or not set the permission to allow or deny it). I see he button though, can't find any flash animation I could just chuck in it that I feel is safe though to test it. If the button went I'm sure we'd get used to the new ui pretty quickly.

Can you give an example of the text allign thing too? I think the BBCode interpreter is either very complex or so few lines it'd be hard to set such constraints but I could be wrong.

[bL4nkcode]

AFAIK flash is disabled/removed on most updated browsers not unless you installed it manually, so maybe it's okay to let that button there since there's no effect when using it, it will just converted to a normal link.

Also, bitcointalk smf has very outdated version, idk if theymos can manually remove such button in posting editor.

[Upgrade00]

If you check the help page, you'll find this info under posting guidelines;

Please note that, if embedded Flash has been disabled by the forum administrator(s), the Flash file will appear as a straight hyperlink as shown here. The two attributes in the 'flash' tag (where relevant) are width and height respectively

The straight hyperlink is what is displayed when I preview the flash tag.

[actmyname]

The shadow button is another one that is useless.

There are a few SMF features that are missing from this, actually... most of the reasons that anything is disabled is for security purposes.

Can you give an example of the text allign thing too? I think the BBCode interpreter is either very complex or so few lines it'd be hard to set such constraints but I could be wrong.

[(anything)][right]{text} will not apply the left tag to inner text.

Input: [b][left]text[/left][/b]
Output:

text

[/b]