Re: UKNM: plug-in take up/stats

[Sajid Mohammed]

This whole debate has made me laugh, quite simply because the

methodology behind the survey is dubious. Today, the Hitbox community

boasted 49,398,296 visitors over 290,497 sites - making a visitors per

site average of 170. Woo-hoo!


The top rating site in the network is the Drudge Report 292,556

vistors. The next one along (Galore) boasts 82,570 - a real drop off.


What I am getting to is this - none of this fills me with confidence

that taking a sample from sites that have an average audience of 170

per day each is statistically significant.


Now, if Nielsen NetRatings or similar were to survey *their* top ten

and  get stats from Yahoo, MSN, Blue Mountain Arts and so forth...


Stefan> Starting off from a personal prejudice about Flash and then

bandying about some ill-distinguised research to support your own

argument seems to be highly unscientific. Look at the poor bloke who

championed the gay gene and has just p***ed six years of research

money up the wall for nothing.


The worst thing you can say about Flash (quite apart from the fact

that it screws up slow machines) is that it is antithetical(?) to the

original vision of the Internet and the Web: it's proprietary, is not

supported on a wide variety of platforms (does Flash run on CE? BSD?

OS/9?) and it's impossible to index using a robot.


In an ideal world, Flash Generator would be open source and we could

all integrate it into our database-driven publishing solution, author

once and publish twice using plug-in detection to give people the

version they can support. But that would be far too easy! ;)


Sajid

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