[78Jo]

Hi BBO dev team,

As you know a lot of vulnerabilities are discovered quite every day in Flash Player.
And Firefox is now blocking all versions of Flash Player including the last one 18.0.0.203.

So do you plan to change your plateform (HTML 5 eg) ?

Regards
Jo

[billw55]

I doubt it. Rewriting the whole client would be time and resource intense, and BBO is not exactly big business. I tend to doubt that rebuilding the client on the platform most recently popular with techies is a high priority.

Besides which, I am sure that vulnerabilities will be found in HTML 5 as well, when (if) it is widely adopted. Cybercrime generally targets the big market share, and is often a step ahead of security.

[Zelandakh]

We could all just go back to the downloadable client.....

[barmar]

While it's not likely to happen to the main BBO application any time soon, we are moving in that direction slowly. The recent revisions to the anonymous web games (Just Play Bridge and Bridge 4 Hands) are HTML5.

[nige1]

 barmar, on 2015-July-15, 08:57, said:

While it's not likely to happen to the main BBO application any time soon, we are moving in that direction slowly. The recent revisions to the anonymous web games (Just Play Bridge and Bridge 4 Hands) are HTML5.

A step in the right direction. Another gripe is pdfs, which are OK for hardcopy, but bulky, slow, and inflexible for web-use.

[barmar]

 nige1, on 2015-July-15, 11:03, said:

A step in the right direction. Another gripe is pdfs, which are OK for hardcopy, but bulky, slow, and inflexible for web-use.

We hardly ever use PDF. I found a handful of PDF files in the documentation folder on the server, but as far as I can tell they're no longer used, and have been superceded by HTML files.

[nige1]

 barmar, on 2015-July-15, 14:09, said:

We hardly ever use PDF. I found a handful of PDF files in the documentation folder on the server, but as far as I can tell they're no longer used, and have been superceded by HTML files.

Good

[78Jo]

A big issue for BBO:

It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day. (Alex Stamos, Facebook)

 billw55, on 2015-July-15, 06:42, said:

I doubt it. Rewriting the whole client would be time and resource intense, and BBO is not exactly big business. I tend to doubt that rebuilding the client on the platform most recently popular with techies is a high priority.

Besides which, I am sure that vulnerabilities will be found in HTML 5 as well, when (if) it is widely adopted. Cybercrime generally targets the big market share, and is often a step ahead of security.

[pcouderc]

Is there not a way with opensource software ? There are many developers who are bridge players too...

[barmar]

I've searched in the past for Flash-to-HTML5 translators, haven't found anything.