[thelist] [Fwd: Flash vs. HTML]

John Dowdell jdowdell at macromedia.com
Wed Apr 10 15:57:01 CDT 2002


> 90% of the money in the world is owned by 1% of the population... I'm
> not sure if the numbers are correct, but it shows that if you lock
> out 10% , you run the risk of missing many rich old ladies.

Sounds like "This site best viewed in a browser which properly supports web
standards".... ;-)


Those StatMarket figures are very old by now, but it is true that IE/Win
people tend to install extensions to a higher proportion than do people in
plugin-using browser. However, all Netscape have shipped with Flash since
NS4.05, so that point is moot anyway.

For search engines, it varies with the engine... Atomz finds text and links
within SWFs. Google doesn't care as much about the content as it cares
about which pages link to you... see "talentless hack", or search on
"google bomb". Just as with other non-staticText content you'd optimize the
hosting pages for your specific search goals.

Adrian had the point about "which site?". MediaMetrix/NPD does regular
consumer testing, but your site's audience may not match general consumer
norms.
<http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/>

For XML, yes, the older player balked at large datasets sent downstream.
The new player parses faster, but 100K of XML is still a 100K download.

For Michael's original post, I wasn't sure what question was intended in there.

jd





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