RE: UKNM: plug-in take up/stats

[Martin Lloyd]

> All those of you who think plug-ins, in particular copromedia flash and

> shockwave are clever things to use on websites might be interested in

> the following:

>

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

>

> now go away and learn HTML.


Hmm, 8.5% have flash, but 11% have IE5 which ships with Flash? I think

someone should put captions on this graph explaining what its showing. Is

this the install base, the %age of user sessions where a particular plugin

is used by a browser or what? Now I may not be prepared to believe that

MacroMedias flash installed on 77% of online US machines  quite yet, but I

reckon its not far off.


When a site offering flash/non-flash versions sees a majority choose Flash

(and they all do) its time to admit that HTML is no longer enough.


Now go away and revise your <embed> tags


Martin 

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