Re: FLASH: Page impressions

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Helen,


You are quite right, it just happens that I've been answering my email

offline in batches so I only saw Tewes clarification after I had sent

the original answer. It does, anyway, have the merit of being a rather

nice idea, even if I say so, and credit should be given to Tewes for

making me come up with that one.

As for a correct answer to Tewes quandry I think from his clarification

that it does have a solution but without knowing a bit more about the

process IVW uses it's useless to propose a particular solution.

>From the slim info if it's a 'pixel' that's counted then it probably is

just a link to a server under IVW control that then just gathers the

info. If this is the case then it is doable in Flash using a GetURL. It

might not work by linking directly from the same flash movie more than

once as, if the process works right, it should check for referrer but

this is also easy to hack ;).

But the best way would be to get in touch with IVW and ask them for a

'impression' counter for Flash based sites. I do think it time to start

pro actively presenting Flash as a de facto standard and demanding

support for it on this basis. The more of us that do this the quicker

this perception will start to really sink in and it will be easier for

us to defend our positions.


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