On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > > On 25/02/12 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > >>> On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>>> On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > >>>>> On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: > >>>>>> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web > >>>>>>> designers that a PC user can watch their videos. Having a > >>>>>>> guarantee that something works is a very powerful incentive; > >>>>>>> you do not abandon something that works. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> It's only guaranteed if flash is installed. HTML5 is pretty > >>>>>> much "guaranteed" with current browsers. > >>>>> > >>>>> Flash has about 95% coverage. > >>>>> That means virtually everyone has it installed. > >>>> > >>>> That's hard to believe. The number of iPads and and iPhones out > >>>> there is getting pretty high, and they don't have flash and > >>>> never will. > >>> > >>> In PCs, not other machines. > >> > >> Why the restriction to PCs? Web designers and website owners don't > >> care about PCs. They care about browsers and eyballs. > > > > PC users have browsers. 95% of those browsers have Flash. > > But your original statement was about "everyone". "Everyone" isn't > limited to PCs. It includes iPads and iPods and iPhones. There are > 10's of millions of those out there, and they don't have flash. > > > I think this is pretty easy to understand. Perhaps it's a language > > barrier and I have trouble expressing myself clearly? > > I guess to me "everyone" is a more inclusive term. > The majority of sites running Flash were set up when iPads were just a glint in Steve's eyes and the total market for non-Windows non-PC browser platforms was too small to be relevant. Changing those sites is not easy or simple. So while it's perfectly true that there are now lots of non-flash platforms out there, there's also this thing called "cultural inertia" meaning that so much of the web still treats the web as being a place where Flash has almost universal penetration It's quite valid to mention "everyone" in this context, just realise that it's used idiomatically (like almost every other word in English...) -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
