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Posted by Travis Newbury on 10/18/06 10:19
Paul Jones wrote:
> > You need to revisit flash.
> One of the problems that I personally have with Flash is that it lays
> you open to looking at a lot of very invasive advertising, often with
> annoying moving images.
Yea, there is a lot of abuse.
> It also means that you have to watch, or
> explicitly turn off, an intro on lots of web sites. I'm clearly at odds
> with a lot of people here on this, but I'm not going going to write for
> a system that I personally dislike and I'm not going to write a web
> site that I can't view on my own system.
No disagreement here. And if a site has too much of that crap, I leave
and never go back. But, I don't shoot the messenger just because I
don't like a few of the messages.
> Another web site of mine has an average of nearly 3,000 page views per
> day.
The data below is meaningless for any site but that one. This same
tracking done for www.saw3.com would yield totally different results.
> My tracker for this site keeps a record of what plugins my
> visitors have installed and the results are as follows:
>
> 1. Dynamic HTML Binding 66.7 %
> 2. Windows Media Services 63.3 %
> 3. No plug-ins measured 30.0 %
> 4. Shockwave Flash 6.7 %
> 5. Shockwave for Director 6.7 %
> 6. RealPlayer 3.3 %
> 7. QuickTime 3.3 %
>
> It appears that it is really not true that most people have Flash
> installed.
Based on visitors to that site. For all I know it could be
www.pluginhaters.com....
The OP wants to present music to the visitor in a player. The content
(the music) and the presentation (the web page and player) are to be
merged into a single entity. So right off the top the OP is saying "I
don't care that there may be a few people that can not see it" If
people coming to his site are there to listen to his music, then they
will turn on Flash or Java, or what ever else is needed to listen. Or
they will leave. If the number of people that listen is satisfactory,
then the number that leave is irrelevant to the success of the site.
Robert Montgomery (CEO CareerBuilder) said it best. "If you can please
80% of your visitors, then you have mastered the web". Since pleasing
100% is impossible, I completely agree with this.
You do what works best for your website. If that is a link to the
music, then do that. If it is a Flash heavy site that has a branded
music or video player, then do that. It is different for every site.
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