|
|
Posted by cwdjrxyz on 08/16/07 06:00
On Aug 15, 10:01 pm, - <"bgyuobhjo[i"@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I wondering if there are any serious data showing compatibilty in % of
> flash web sites.
I looked at http://www.w3schools.com and found the below statement in
their section on flash.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who can View Flash?
In September 2000, NPD Research, the parent company of MediaMetrix,
conducted a study to determine what percentage of Web browsers have
Flash preinstalled. The results show that 96.4% of Web users can
experience Macromedia Flash content without having to download and
install a player.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
A very high percentage of computer users have used computers with
flash installed for a long time. Some of the lesser used OSs will
allow installing of special programs to view flash when an official
version is not made for their OS. However these versions are often one
or two upgrades behind the most recent official flash versions for the
more popular browsers. If you are interested in the small number of
little used OSs, it pays to write your flash in perhaps versions 7 or
8 rather than the current 9 version. I often write in 7 or 8, but the
flash player I have installed is a 9. So far as I have seen, the
latest player usually plays flash movies written in an earlier
version, but the reverse sometimes is not the case if you used
something that is new in the latest version. If you do not use flash
much, there are programs more limited that the official ones that cost
much less and meet the needs of many.
Like all compressed media formats, flash has advantages and
disadvantages depending on what you want to do. It can make videos of
fair quality for slow connections unlike some of the other video file
types. But using the newer FLV/SWF format and high bit rates, it also
can make very high quality videos suitable only for broadband viewing.
There is no video format best for everything, especially if it needs
great compression - different video formats respond to great
compression in different ways. There is now a great glut of video
formats and many are used for special purposes such as for viewing on
various mobile devices etc. There always will be a few to many users
who can not view any video format. Thus, if you are selling things,
you need to provide something else other than just video to not lose
potential customers. Many things have been used such as a link to a
still picture, a text description, etc. Although I have no statistics
to quote, I doubt if many people will bother to download a player for
any video format even if your page tries to direct them to a download
site, if the video format you use is not supported on the computer.
The reasons for the bad reputation of flash in many quarters are the
excesses often used by high pressure ad execs. Many are annoyed by
flash displays that auto start, especially if they can not be turned
off. I am most annoyed by flash displays that rapidly flash images or
text at you at a rapid rate and displays that expand greatly and
obscure text when you just pass the cursor over them, perhaps on your
way to click some link not related to the flash.
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|