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Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Well given that as, from your point of view, this issue raises its ugly head yet again, it cannot be said that the community has reached consensus on this issue. There are people that do not share your opinion and are not afraid to say so. There are good arguments against the use of apparently not everybody bought into your ideas or weighs them and comes to a different conclusion.
There is one thing you should consider, MediaWiki is not only used for educational purposes by the Wikimedia Foundation. There is a lot of great educational material available in Flash. This is a really strong argument when you use MediaWiki in an educational setting.
The beautiful thing about MediaWiki is that since it is open source free software, ANYONE is free to add support for Flash if they wish. And they already have. There are MediaWiki plugins out there that use with Flash. So what exactly are you asking that we do, if it is already done? We should be focusing all of our effort on completely Free endeavors; if non-free applications, such as Flash, are useful to other people, well then they can do it themselves - and they have!
This is, of course, one of the huge strong points of free software that proprietary systems like Flash cannot ever hope to achieve. If you want to do something in Flash, Adobe has to have created it themselves. If you want to do something in MediaWiki (such as adding Flash support), you can simply do it yourself.