The two sites you mention are public sites; if they drive 10% of their
potential audience away, but receive 20% more benefit (e.g. retaining
the most loyal viewers, lowing bandwidth costs with newer codec, etc...)
by doing so then it makes sense. For intra-net type or b2b type sites
the equation is different. In these situations end users can't
typically upgrade their software, and IT departments may be very
conservative in their upgrade schedules; also you face a "it needs to
work for all our employees" issue even when this isn't the case. I'm
just saying that just because some sites require the most recent player,
it may or may not make sense for you, depending on you
audience/business-model.
Steven Sacks | BLITZ wrote:
(For the main thread, people usually decide what features their
application might need, and then balance that against the trends in
capability among their own audience.)
MySpace requires Flash 9 Player, You Tube requires Flash 8 (last I
checked). They seem to have no problems getting people to upgrade. If
people want your content, they'll upgrade and upgrading Flash is about
as easy as it gets and almost everyone has experience with the process.
The biggest sale points for Flash 8 are the better font readability and
higher quality video. The biggest sale points for Flash 9 are
significant speed performance and Flex support.
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