RE: [BULK] Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
This is really cool, Glen! Thanks for the heads up on Flash Analytics. I am going to implement this on my personal site! Unfortunately, I am with the gov't and we can't use the Google app on our site. I wish we could! Does anyone know if there is a way to write something that runs with the person first hits my internet home page... possibly an asp script that will detect the version of flash and write it out to a log file? Basically we want to create our own stats for our particular audience. We don't want the coding embedded in a SWF, since there are no swf's on our home page. Any advice or references you have would be most helpful! Thanks! Susan ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [BULK] Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
Hi again Susan, There are several ways, you can write your own Javascript or search google for an example]. Or, you can use SWFObject, and then rip out the version it finds in the externally loaded swfobject.js file: deconcept.SWFObjectUtil.getPlayerVersion(); Or, you can load a flash SWF file, that reads the version: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14294 And then write/store that information manually via some ASP/PHP script on your server. :) Seb. Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS wrote: This is really cool, Glen! Thanks for the heads up on Flash Analytics. I am going to implement this on my personal site! Unfortunately, I am with the gov't and we can't use the Google app on our site. I wish we could! Does anyone know if there is a way to write something that runs with the person first hits my internet home page... possibly an asp script that will detect the version of flash and write it out to a log file? Basically we want to create our own stats for our particular audience. We don't want the coding embedded in a SWF, since there are no swf's on our home page. Any advice or references you have would be most helpful! Thanks! Susan ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
Well, the most important reason for people to have the latest FP is the security fix(fixed in 9.0.124). But, Adobe does not supply that version's penetration as of yet: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html As for creating your own survey for your users, this would be pretty straight forward. Get the version they are using on load, send the version to a database, compare overall versions = result. Also, you could probably inject JS into the page the swf lives and pull the version that way so you don't have to recompile/embed deploy a new swf. B. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am in a bit of a quandary... I need to do 2 things. First of all, I need to convince my gov't client that AS3 and flash 9 are the way to go for new development. Does anyone know of a good list of benefits I might be able to share with my client? My second task... I need to somehow detect what version of the flash player people are using who access our site and track this data. If I could prove that a certain percentage of people already have the Flash 9 player installed that would greatly help my case. Basically I need to accomplish this task in the background, so it won't disturb the user's workflow and track the data. We have about 80k users of our website. Is there a good way to do this that you might recommend? Any guidance you could provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks! Susan ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
Hi Susan, This might help you a little: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html In google you can find more stats by using some or all of these words: flash player penetration version statistics and to make your own stats: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection_kit/ http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14294 check also, if in AS3, the class: Class Capabilities :) Good luck! Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS wrote: Hi everyone, I am in a bit of a quandary... I need to do 2 things. First of all, I need to convince my gov't client that AS3 and flash 9 are the way to go for new development. Does anyone know of a good list of benefits I might be able to share with my client? My second task... I need to somehow detect what version of the flash player people are using who access our site and track this data. If I could prove that a certain percentage of people already have the Flash 9 player installed that would greatly help my case. Basically I need to accomplish this task in the background, so it won't disturb the user's workflow and track the data. We have about 80k users of our website. Is there a good way to do this that you might recommend? Any guidance you could provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks! Susan ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
Hi, Google Analytics will report the Flash version down to the revision if you have this installed already, you are laughing. It's tucked under Visitors-Browser Capabilities-Flash Versions on the Analytics page. Glen Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS wrote: Hi everyone, I am in a bit of a quandary... I need to do 2 things. First of all, I need to convince my gov't client that AS3 and flash 9 are the way to go for new development. Does anyone know of a good list of benefits I might be able to share with my client? My second task... I need to somehow detect what version of the flash player people are using who access our site and track this data. If I could prove that a certain percentage of people already have the Flash 9 player installed that would greatly help my case. Basically I need to accomplish this task in the background, so it won't disturb the user's workflow and track the data. We have about 80k users of our website. Is there a good way to do this that you might recommend? Any guidance you could provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks! Susan ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01326 218440 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
That's pretty hot Glen. I didn't know that was there! Thanks, learned something new! =) B. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, Google Analytics will report the Flash version down to the revision if you have this installed already, you are laughing. It's tucked under Visitors-Browser Capabilities-Flash Versions on the Analytics page. Glen Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS wrote: Hi everyone, I am in a bit of a quandary... I need to do 2 things. First of all, I need to convince my gov't client that AS3 and flash 9 are the way to go for new development. Does anyone know of a good list of benefits I might be able to share with my client? My second task... I need to somehow detect what version of the flash player people are using who access our site and track this data. If I could prove that a certain percentage of people already have the Flash 9 player installed that would greatly help my case. Basically I need to accomplish this task in the background, so it won't disturb the user's workflow and track the data. We have about 80k users of our website. Is there a good way to do this that you might recommend? Any guidance you could provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks! Susan ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders -- Glen Pike 01326 218440 www.glenpike.co.uk http://www.glenpike.co.uk ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] OT - Detecting flash versions for a large site
Hi,
It's quite nice and I have used Flash with Analytics for tracking
too - just by calling the javascript functions (bit of a fiddle in AS3),
but straightforward in AS2 and you can set up Goals too for your site to
measure your targets and see how people got there. As much as I have
issues with Google's ubiquity, this tool is free and I have not found
anything to match it so far...
Stick Analytics in your HTML page:
script type=text/javascript
var gaJsHost = ((https: == document.location.protocol) ?
https://ssl.; : http://www.;);
document.write(unescape(%3Cscript src=' + gaJsHost +
google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E));
/script
script type=text/javascript
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(UA-BLAHBLAH);
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
/script
/body
AS2:
getURL(javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/make/up/your/url/to/suit/
+ pageID + '););
JS For AS3 - a bit of a frig because there were issues with the
pageTracker object...
script type=text/javascript
// ![CDATA[
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(UA-BLAHBLAH);
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
function trackTesting(page) {
pageTracker._trackPageview(page);
}
// ]]
/script
AS3:
var page:String = evt.type.substr(5);
//ExternalInterface caused a few problems with this so I abandoned
it for the getURL replacement in AS3
sendToURL(new URLRequest(javascript:trackTesting('+page+');));
HTH
Glen
Bob Wohl wrote:
That's pretty hot Glen. I didn't know that was there! Thanks, learned
something new! =)
B.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Glen Pike [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Hi,
Google Analytics will report the Flash version down to the revision if you
have this installed already, you are laughing.
It's tucked under Visitors-Browser Capabilities-Flash Versions on the
Analytics page.
Glen
Lord, Susan, CTR, DSS wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am in a bit of a quandary... I need to do 2 things. First of all, I
need to convince my gov't client that AS3 and flash 9 are the way to go
for new development. Does anyone know of a good list of benefits I
might be able to share with my client?
My second task... I need to somehow detect what version of the flash
player people are using who access our site and track this data. If I
could prove that a certain percentage of people already have the Flash 9
player installed that would greatly help my case. Basically I need to
accomplish this task in the background, so it won't disturb the user's
workflow and track the data. We have about 80k users of our website. Is
there a good way to do this that you might recommend?
Any guidance you could provide is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Susan
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