RE: FLASH: You think Shockwave is truely the future of the web..

[Nelson Rothermel]

Let me help you prove it a little... go to 

http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/  As of October 1999, 

they estimate that 88.3% of people have Flash player (up by about 5% 

since June), and 52% have shockwave player (same as in June).


Nelson



On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Paul Watson wrote:


> It is like any new technology. Flash went through the phase where there

> were more people without the plugin than there were people with it. Now

> it has become a standard - and I'd like to see someone disprove that.

> Things take time and it's a real effort providing for those without XML

> capability and with XML capability but its worth it in the long run.

> Grab it by the horns and work with it. Redirect to standard sites if the

> user cannot support XML.

> 

> Paul Watson

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>  -----Original Message-----

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From: David Sparks [davidconceptcompany [dot] com (mailto:davidconceptcompany [dot] com)]

> Sent:	Monday, November 22, 1999 1:43 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject:	Re: FLASH: You think Shockwave is truely the future of

> the web..

> 

> What you said, only about three years from now will anyone see it being

> practical to use in commercial projects which require support from all

> browsers.

> 

> 

> David Sparks

> Concept Company - http://www.conceptcompany.com

> 

> Paul Watson wrote:

> 

> > As far as I know at the moment only Internet Explorer 5 has a limited

> > ability to parse XML. Though it's shaky at best. Netscape should

> follow

> > suit pretty soon but at the moment XML is still largely unsupported

> > though it will catch on, I don't see how it cannot. And XML is XML,

> > whether you hear about it from Sun, W3C or Microsoft.

> >

> > Paul Watson

> >

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> > South Africa

> >

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> >  -----Original Message-----

>

> From: Michael Penne [digit8ryahoo [dot] com (mailto:digit8ryahoo [dot] com)]

> > Sent:   Sunday, November 21, 1999 10:10 PM

>

> To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> > Subject:        Re: FLASH: You think Shockwave is truely the future of

> > the web..

> >

> > What browsers can currently render xml?

> >

> > PS, is Sun's XML the same as the W3C's XML?

> >

>

> --- Yew-Sun Hu <yshone [dot] net [dot] au> wrote:

> > > Shockwave will only act as an enhancer for web

> > > sites, it will not replace

> > > html. XML by Sun Microsystems will replace HTML.

> > >

> > >

> > > Isabella Hu

> >

> > =====

> > 2D/3D/Flash/etc...

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