> Penetration? Macromeida flogs the 98% of the world has it ? I do not believe this for one second. 98% penetration is not credible for any plugin-based product.
Not that his method is entirely scientific, but this fellow: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:OGyrpuRS7vEJ:www.andyjeffries.co.uk/documents/flash_penetration.php+macromedia+flash+usage+percentage&hl=en&start=3 would suggest that even your 85% figure is overly generous. But let's be nice and split the difference and say it's 78%. > lets > assume its 85% compare that against Browsers that support > CSS2/Javascript 1.2 (fully) 94% are 1.2 capable and 96% are JS capable to some extent. And that was in January 2004: http://www.onlinesitedevelopment.com/Download.html (my stats are the results of five minutes of googling, feel free to shoot me down if you can demonstrate them to be massively unreliable) Not to mention that a javascript solution doesn't have to be fully 1.2 compliant, since in this instance the developers have the luxury of being able to code for backwards compatibility and graceful degradation. Can't really do that with a plugin-based solution. > regardless of 100% penetration as 100% of the world aren't going > to be able to access GMAIL + GOOGLE MAPS. Well, yeah, my nana who doesn't own a computer isn't able to access it, which is why we are drawing our sample from all known internet users, rather than everyone in the world. > Anyway i'd wager they choose a non-flash-type solution for the simple > fact of keeping it 100% google owned and relied on their stuff, not > anyone elses. It would still be 100% google owned if they wrote it in flash, but I maintain that market penetration would have been a factor. Google's all about seamlessness and making things that just work. I'm not aware of them ever having done anything that required more than one of the fairly recent mainstream browsers for a user to just plug in and start playing. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
