[Sigia-l] Macromedia Flashpaper [was: Acrobat reader ?]

[David Mendels]

Hi Boniface,

The Flash Player is preinstalled *prior* to folks taking the survey.  In
other words, we do not allow the install of the Flash player during the
survey which would skew the results. The wording seemed quite clear to me,
and I had not heard this concern before.  I'll ask a few other folks if they
find it confusing and we can consider changing it.

Regards,
David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Boniface Lau
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:05 PM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Macromedia Flashpaper [was: Acrobat reader ?]
> 
> 
> > From: David Mendels
> >  
> > > > If you are interested in reletive saturation of Flash 
> player, by 
> > > > version, vs Acrobat, visit here for a study by NPD:
> > > > http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/
> > > 
> > > Those numbers refer to Flash pre-installations. 
> > 
> > Actually, this is not correct.  The numbers refer to 
> actual, working, 
> > installs.
> 
> But even the survey page uses the phrase "Flash preinstalled":
> 
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/survey
> 
> SURVEY> In March 2004, NPD Research, the parent company of 
> MediaMetrix, 
> SURVEY> conducted a study to determine what percentage of Web 
> browsers 
> SURVEY> have Macromedia Flash preinstalled. The results show 
> that 98.0% 
> SURVEY> of Web users can experience Macromedia Flash content without 
> SURVEY> having to download and install a player.
> 
> 
> > The research methodology is very straightforward. A person 
> is asked to 
> > go to a page and state whether he can or can not see the content of 
> > that page (for example, Flash 5 content, Flash 6 content, Flash 7 
> > content, .pdf, .mov, etc). Only if the person can actually see the 
> > working Flash (or other content type) content is it 
> counted. Folks who 
> > uninstall Flash do not see that content and would not be counted as 
> > having the Flash player.
> 
> If that is indeed how the survey was done, the survey page 
> should be rewritten to properly convey the meaning of those figures.
> 
> 
> Boniface
> 
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