Re: [Fsfe-uk] Free Flash-equivalents

[MJ Ray]

Rob Myers <address@hidden> wrote:
> MJ Ray wrote:
> > Alex Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Flash [...] more than 98% or something of the viewing populace have
> >> it.
> > 
> > What's the source of that, please?
>
> http://www.adobe.com/platform/whitepapers/psgroup_flashplatform.pdf#search=%22flash%2098%20percent%22

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At a quick glance, that doesn't seem to state its sources either.

> Or: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,71558-0.html

Following links from there tells us that it's actually that 98% of a 
weighted calculation based on people who respond when they "are sent an 
e-mail directing them to Lightspeed's survey site via a URL" have Flash.

Lightspeed - their own site www.lightspeedresearch.com uses Flash and 
their example survey is Javascript-using invalid xhtml that doesn't 
follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.  Do you think their 
survey results about web technology support may be a little biased?

Maybe Flash is pretty common, but I don't think those figures are 
satisfactory.  They look more like marketing than statistics.

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