[wp-hackers] SWFobject not included in core?

[Beau Lebens]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
> I'm impressed that WordPress includes so many JS libs in core (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script) but am curious why SWFobject is not one of them?

Because it's not needed?

SWFUploader is the only thing I'm aware of that's flash-based that's
in the core, and it uses its own system to add the flash item into the
DOM.

Only libraries that are used in core are distributed as part of the
core package.