[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it really only 40%, that's the impression that people here are > under. I need a current please so I can fight the good fight for > flash 9 since I don't want to have to develop for flash 8 in eclipse.
Adobe Flash Player 9 was released on June 27 2006: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/06/flash_player_9_2.cfm When Milward Brown conducted a consumer audit 2.5 months later, in September, they found about 40% current viewability: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/11/flash_player_st.cfm Successful daily Player installations remain comfortably above five million a day. There was a significant upwards tick in early December, likely due to scandals in the movie industry in China (search term "'zhang yu' video"). Last week the auto-update mechanism for the fullscreen Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28 was enabled: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/12/player_releases.cfm Summary: General consumer viewability is likely 'way above majority levels today. The consumer audits being conducted this month by Milward Brown will be published in the early part of next year. Your particular audience may or may not match overall consumer trends. If you need the faster logic-processing abilities with Adobe Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3, then this should be a sufficient convincer for most clients. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
