Re: FLASH: Flash usage on the Net?

[Rob Potter]

Thanks!  That was one of my main concerns.  Now all I need is to find a

Flash artist/programmer for some Flash work for a new site.


Anyone seen a great menus system?


Regards,

Rob



>At 01:16 AM 3/13/99 -0800, Paul Mossbarger wrote:

>>Hi all.  Got some related issues I'm curious about.

>>

>> 1)  Are there any statistics on how many people currently browsing have

the

>>Flash plugin?  I've read the stats on Macromedia's site, but I was wanting

>>to compare real-life experience with their stats.

>

>

>Yes, there is an in-depth third party study (done by King Brown and

>Partners) and a detailed whitepaper at

>

>http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/survey/main.html

>

>There is an online version and a downloadable .PDF so that you actually can

>print something out if you want a document to show your clients.

>

>Summary: Over 77% of all web surfers already have Flash installed.

>

>

>> 2)  Are people generally willing to download a plugin to see a Flash

site?

>

>Over 77% already have it. An additional large percentage will get the

>seamless autodownload experience provided by IE and Active X.  Only a very

>small percent will actually need to actively download it.

>

>> 2a)  In your experience, how seamless is the plugin installation on

either

>>browser?

>> 3)  How do you sell clients on whether or not to use Flash?  Mine often

>>balk when I let them know it involves a plugin.

>

>

>That is exactly the purpose of the study and the whitepaper mentioned

>above.  Please read it and let us know if it helps you.  At Macromedia,

>this is one of our top priorities...we'd love your feedback and we can

>continue to improve the whitepaper and provide other tools that can help

>you with this.  Let us know what you think of what we have so far and what

>you want to see.

>

>Thanks,

>

>David

>Macromedia

>---------------------------------------------------------------

>David Mendels

>Vice President and General Manager,

>Web Publishing, Macromedia

>

dmendelsmacromedia [dot] com

>




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