Deprecate swf embedded objects

[François Marier]

The SWFObject detection script we used in the internal media blocktype is using this upstream code:

  http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

but it has now been replaced by this one, which is up to version 2.2:

  http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

This still looks like it needs to be done

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

The upgrade is non-trivial. SWFObject 2.2 is not backwards-compatible with SWFObject 1.5. The trickiest part is that the <script> tags are meant to go in the document head. On the other hand, Mahara has several ways of adding things to the document head, so it's not insurmountable.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

To clarify what this library is for, it's what we use to display SWF files uploaded by users. So, unless we want to drop support for displaying SWF files in the embedded media block, we shouldn't consider this bug to be a "Won't Fix".

That said, the time may soon be right to drop support for .SWF files.

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Patch for "master" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/7572

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/7572
Committed: https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara/commit/0b30a77a001eb49ec8338ee368811ef88577d1a2
Submitter: Robert Lyon (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 0b30a77a001eb49ec8338ee368811ef88577d1a2
Author: Robert Lyon <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Mar 29 11:36:10 2017 +1300

Bug 604839: Removing support for embedding .swf objects

behatnotneeded - to come later

Change-Id: I42f40d997559c4fda132e9c36dc8e2c9d016c61e
Signed-off-by: Robert Lyon <email address hidden>