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[Hellblazer]

Writing plugins is no issue, really. In fact, since the last major upgrade, I shifted almost all edits to a self-written plugin where feasible. Some edits, though, dig so deep into the core-files that it's not possible to reproduce it in a plugin-like manner.

Well, after some time, people will rage for the bugs that will be associated with it. Remember the epic WYSIWYG saga, even though it was related to myBB.. It is simply better to keep it disabled, as there is almost no need for the feature to be implemented; will almost remain untouched for ages.. except for some fancy signatures.. e.e

Yes. Embedding objects is per se dangerous from a security's standpoint, especially if flash/java are enabled in your browser.

The reason why chrome officially ditched java. Well most websites will give up the rusty flash after HTML 5 is finalized i guess, most already did.