I 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

I 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.