[thelist] flash detection

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Tue May 8 00:26:19 CDT 2001


Erik Mattheis wrote on 8/5/01 12:05 am

>RE: Player Penetration - here are logs from the past week for a site that 
>detects player version:
>
>233:  2.78%: May/ 7/01 16:46: /
>215:  0.19%: May/ 7/01 16:46: /detect_3.swf
>206:  0.11%: May/ 7/01 16:46: /detect_4.swf
>
>206/233 = 88.5% percent of visitors definitely had Flash 4 or greater.
>215/233 = 92% percent of visitors definitely had Flash 3 or greater.

Um can you say "Self-selecting"?

If this is a site which won't really work very well if you don't have
flash then it's hardly surprising.

Simplistic stats are fun, aren't they?

Cheers
Martin

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