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Flash games only exist because everyone installed Flash to watch video. Before flash video hit, the installed-base wasn't that impressive/threatening.
by roc 17y ago
Flash games only exist because everyone installed Flash to watch video.
Before flash video hit, the installed-base wasn't that impressive/threatening.
- blasdel 17y agoPrecisely the reverse is true. People installed Flash to play games and use artist / restaurant 'websites' made by new-media-douchebags. Flash video took off because of the enormous install base, and the ability to control presentation.
- wmeredith 17y ago> artist / restaurant 'websites' made by new-media-douchebags. This is hilarious.
- teej 17y agoI find this hard to believe. A google answers query from 2005 puts Flash penetration at 98.2% (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/561724.html http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/561724.html) The article introducing the groundbreaking sIFR library from 2004 cites the reasoning for using Flash as high penetration (http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr). Macromedia in the year 2000 puts their penetration rate at ~90% (http://web.archive.org/web/20001109224100/http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/ http://web.archive.org/web/20001109224100/http://www.macrome...) There is simply no evidence that points to video causing Flash to become a standard plugin.
- kierank 17y agoFlash was included by default in Windows XP. It also has a simple update process.
- benologist 17y agoVideo was barely emerging back when Flash began, ala RealPlayer and the like. Flash itself didn't even begin getting good video functionality till the 6th version (Flash MX) from memory.