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Subject:	RE: FLASH: Uninstall IE5 FlashPlugIn-MM Download page
From:	JGL
Date:	Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:05:38 +0100

Sorry about my rant here - I truly hope others are interested in this too .
.
. . .and that we get some justification about it all . . .

Now, when you click to install you get this afterwards:
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages/flash.html

The part that really bothers me is more advertising and it even says:
"When you see the Flash Player movie playing below, your installation is
successful. The installation should take less than a minute on a 56.6K
modem."
"When the movie above appears, continue on to shockwave.com"

NO, I want them back at my page. Not to shockwave.com

ShockWave.com is cool and all - but really isn't for the audience of this
particular web site.

The Download page should be a utility, not a marketing piece. Except to
instill confidence in someone (MM) installing SW on their computer . . .

What do you guys think?

I bring this up because I recently launched a Flash site and 36% of the
initial users had to go to the MM site and download the plug-in.

23% needed to upgrade
13% needed a player

JGL

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