[thelist] Flash stats.

[Erik Mattheis]

>OK, then...find us a good source of stats on Flash usage (other than
>Macromedia).

To me, it's impertinent how many people have the Player if the experience or information you want to deliver can only be achieved with Flash ... and even if only 7% had it ... I mean, like, Wild West cowboys are idolized ... I demand that everybody that still is against Flash start giving us cowboys the respect we deserve. If it seems legitimate, we might even let you take a chaw off our tobacco ropes.

Here is JS to detect how many of your visitors have the Flash Player - plugin will be boolean true if the script successfully detected it - please get back to us on what you find:

var plugin = 0;
if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin) {
	if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"])
		plugin = 1;
}
else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0
   && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 95")>=0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 98")>=0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT")>=0)) {
	document.write('<SCR');
	document.write('IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n');
	document.write('on error resume next \n');
	document.write('plugin = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3")))\n');
	document.write('if ( plugin <= 0 ) then plugin = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4")))\n');
	document.write('if ( plugin <= 0 ) then plugin = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5")))\n');
	document.write('</SCR');
	document.write('IPT\> \n');
}


At 9:36 AM +1200 5/11/01, Andrew Forsberg wrote:
>What I find weird is that they list the netscape *default plugin* as present in only 64% of the netscape browsers surveyed.

Yeah, and also they say that 4.2% are Mac (seems way low) yet 4.41% have the iTools plug-in - for which you not only need a Mac, but Mac OS 9 or X ... a quick look over of the code at http://code-adrunner.mycomputer.com/code/ar/websnapshot468/0/30b looked ok, so it's puzzling.
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