Re: FLASH: online commerce question

[John Croteau]

Hi all,


> 88%?

88 to 90 percent is probably the right range of people browsing the Web

that have Flash 3 or 4.

The total percentage of people who have the plugin/activex would be

smaller because many people do not browse on the Web and therefore would

not have upgraded their plugin/ActiveX control which may have come with

Flash 2 or not have Flash installed automatically.

 

> Not according to StatMarket - they say its more like 66%.

Stat Market only test for plugins (not activeX controls) thus the large

majority of their visitors (Internet Explorer on Windows) are untested

for Flash.

The incorrect methodology that StatMarket used to use to report stats on

plugins was changed by the efforts of a few members on this List.


The remaining reason why StatMarket and most of the others that provide

stats publicly is the clientel of these companies. In general though

these companies draw clients from a wide spectrum, typically most of

their hits are from a small number of clients (generally Xrated sites)

and not from a statistically random sample of their clients or the Web.

> http://www.statmarket.com/SM?c=Plugins


As for Ecommerce sites that require Flash 4, for a while longer they

must rely upon the willingness of their potential clients to upgrade to

Flash 4. There are no good numbers on Flash 4 penitration (at least made

publicly that I know of), but i expect it is somewhere near 40-50

percent and will still be few months before it becomes dominant.


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