Posted by Travis Newbury on 04/09/07 16:28

On Apr 9, 7:12 am, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> Why do people think flash is a good choice from compatibility point of view...

Well I think they (adobe and Flash 9) have covered a greater majority
of OS's and browsers than any other single medium

Microsoft® Windows® Vista Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox
1.5, Mozilla 1.x, Netscape 7.x or later

Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.x, Netscape
7.x or later, AOL 9, Opera 7.11 or later

Windows Me
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.x, Netscape
7.x or later, AOL 9, Opera 7.11 or later

Windows 2000
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.x, Netscape
7.x or later, CompuServe 7, AOL 9, Opera 7.11 or later

Windows XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.x,
Netscape 7.x or later, CompuServe 7, AOL 9, Opera 7.11 or later

Windows Server™ 2003
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.x, Netscape
7.x or later, CompuServe 7, AOL 9, Opera 7.11 or later

Mac OS X v.10.1.x, 10.2.x, 10.3.x, or 10.4.x (PowerPC)
Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.x, Netscape 7.x or later, AOL for Mac OS X,
Opera 6, Safari 1.x or later

Mac OS X v.10.4.x (Intel)
Firefox 1.5.0.3 or later, Opera 6, Safari 2.x or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 update 8, RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS)
Firefox 1.5.0.7 and higher; Mozilla 1.7.x and higher; SeaMonkey 1.0.5
and higher

Novell SUSE 9.x or 10.1
Firefox 1.5.0.7 and higher; Mozilla 1.7.x and higher; SeaMonkey 1.0.5
and higher

Not to mention NO other media player gives you the ability to interact
with your media the way Flash does. If they did, then all the multi
media sites would be turning to that rather than Flash. And the trend
to move to Flash video is apparent to everyone that watches the
industry.

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