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[Petie]

You're not wrong about games and sites like Facebook still making use of Flash to a certain extent but it's not nearly as prevalent as it once was. I was just giving an example as to why it wouldn't be bad for Flash to finally die off. That being said, it isn't just compromised SWFs that pose a security threat - the platform as a whole is riddled with issues. Again though, that's not my logic here.

As for the server end, you're not entirely correct. Sure, extraction of the zip might happen on the client side if whatever plugin we were to implement downloads the zip first but that is still a pretty significant drain given that the zips are often fairly large and the entire file would need to be transferred every time someone wanted to look at it (barring caching on the client side, of course, but that still only mitigates a small portion of the issue). But again, even that isn't the primary concern - there's just not enough consistency in the data to work out a way to do this without massively overhauling the existing submissions and coming up with set guidelines for future ones.

If you can figure out way to alleviate all of these issues, I'm all ears but just coming up with a plugin that's capable of reading the contents of a zip file isn't enough to make this feasible.