does anyone know percentage of web users that can view flash

[damon2003]

I need to know how what sort of proportion of users on the web have browsers that can view Flash. What about if a Flash movie is created using Flash MX, how much does this figure then fall and is it possible to save Flash movies to a previous version using Flash mx,
thanks

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

i think it's like 97% of the public has flash mx installed.. the only problem is blind peeps cant see it. (no screen readers can read flash)

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

note: it's mostly school computers that DONT have it installed. Most public computers have it already installed.

[pyro]

Yep, 97% as of June 2003: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/

But the Eolas lawsuit (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5088349.html) might get in the way of that... Hopefully not, with the W3C's help (http://www.w3.org/2003/10/28-906-briefing).

[damon2003]

thanks a lot,
when did browsers start supporting javascript. How does javascript support compare to Flash support, I assume it must be a percent or two more then?

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

javascript is widely supported. but a lot of people turn it off. so like 13% of the people who go to your site won't have JS installed.

[damon2003]

Really, I didnt know that,
so that means that menus or anything else written in Flash is more widely supported than Javascript.
Why do some people turn Javascript off?

[Sux0rZh@jc0rz]

to block popups, anti-right click scripts, annoying things following your mouse around the page, ect.