Flash

How do I embed flash in the forum? It says "[flash] is OFF" in the lower right when you post. How do I turn it on?

[Little_Apple]

why would you want to?
just curious

Embed a video

Yes ive wanted to post my vids before but havent been able to.

No, this is luckily not possible. I have tested it.
Adobe Flash sucks anyways, mainly because it is a closed system. And it currently dies a slow death. For example, there are no major Flash Player updates for Linux users anymore, since version 11.2. Current Flash version is 11.5. And for some mobile devices they have thrown out Flash support entirely. I do not use Flash at all since months and am very happy with it.

Oh, and since the introduction of HTML5 you don’t need Flash for video anyways. HTML5 comes with native video support.

Stupidly, most video pages (expect YouTube) refuse to switch to HTML5 and still stick to that legacy software called "Flash". However, I am still able to watch videos, because I have installed the ViewTube userscript for the Greasemonkey Firefox add-on which automatically replaces the flash shit with HTML5 awesomeness.

So—why the fuck don’t you simply post the URL of the video or upload it as an attachment (if the video is not too large)?

Stupidly, most video pages (expect YouTube) refuse to switch to HTML5 and still stick to that legacy software called "Flash". However, I am still able to watch videos, because I have installed the ViewTube userscript for the Greasemonkey Firefox add-on which automatically replaces the flash shit with HTML5 awesomeness.

YouTube has an HTML5 trial at the TestTube that you can enable to have HTML5 video.

So—why the fuck don’t you simply post the URL of the video or upload it as an attachment (if the video is not too large)?

A video has to be mighty short to be an attachment, and using links is lame.

All I want to know is how do I turn on flash?

[raptor]

FYI, I believe a link is *not* lame, and is, in fact, courteous. Embedded video/audio slows down web pages and can be very annoying when it starts playing randomly when all you want to do is read the page.

FYI, I believe a link is *not* lame, and is, in fact, courteous. Embedded video/audio slows down web pages and can be very annoying when it starts playing randomly when all you want to do is read the page.

Yeah ok. How do I turn on flash?

[bobdaduck]

FYI, I believe a link is *not* lame, and is, in fact, courteous. Embedded video/audio slows down web pages and can be very annoying when it starts playing randomly when all you want to do is read the page.

Yeah ok. How do I turn on flash?

You don't.

It says at the bottom left that [flash] is off. Why?

[bobdaduck]

It says flash is on.

Not for me.

[Little_Apple]

you might have to be a mod to have the power to embed a video just to prevent spamming and massive lag within threads... then again i have no idea what I'm chicken noodle soup

[sam686]

It is a "Forum Permission" system that can switch on or off the ability to use "[flash]" for some or all forum or some users. Looks like moderators and admins have more permissions. Only admins can switch on/off the permissions.

However, not everyone have flash installed or enabled. Many websites uses flash only for annoying advertisements.

But, HTML code can embed some things without using flash, such as YouTube embedding, found on the main Bitfighter page.

It is possible for admins to add custom BB tags into the forum that turns into HTML code, though.

ok sam can you do it?

[raptor]

I'm going to make an executive decision and choose to leave the defaults and *not* let flash be embedded in the forums. This will keep the noise level down, as well as get rid of an attack vector.

but what if somone wants to post a flash vid........