Perdue, Blake wrote:
Does Adobe, or anyone else, provide Flash player penetration statistics that include subversions (ie, Flash Player version 6,0,65,0) This is all I could find: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetrat ion.html
Not that I've seen, at least not for largescale audiences. Here's some of the context:
-- The audit methodology is to take regular online consumer focus groups, and ask them to view a dozen or so different pages, each with a different type or version of simple content. Each additional viewing page causes some testers to stop, potentially skewing the result. Bottom line is that there's a practical limit on how many test pages can be used.
-- The results are useful as a general guideline, but do not apply directly to any particular website. Use these stats to look at trends across all consumers, not as a predictor for the audience to a specific site.
With that context, if you're looking to determine specific minor versions for a particular site's audience, you can use your own server logs and/or any versioning test you include on that one site.
More generally speaking, you can use the overall web norms, and the periods between different Player releases, to do a general estimate of how much time people had to install a particular old minor version... if a version was only available for three months before being replaced by a version which was current for six months, then the latter would have higher current viewership.
But even more generally, nearly the entire web is turning over its Adobe Flash Player capabilities each year now, and they always get the latest version when they update. Unless you're dealing with a bound audience (like an intranet without administrative privileges), then audiences with old capabilities are getting smaller and smaller, as the overall adoption rate continues to rocket forward.
Does this give you the info needed to bring this project forward...? 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. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
