Flash q
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- Mick0
I have a site that uses Player 7. If I use v.8, my stats show that's 3.5% less users can view the content.
Doesn't sound like much, but for this site it's 4,300 users / month.
Depends on your target audience... if your marketing to hi-tech people 8 will be fine, if you want to reach the mass audience, go with 6 or even 7 if you need features that came out in 7.
- ian0
I think it fear people not wanting to upgrade that'll mean I'll have to export it to a lower version. Shame but what can ye do eh?
this is what I was doing, its really only the font thats making me push for player 8
- mimeartist0
the percentage difference between 6 and 8 is so little worthwhile doing it in 8...
- UndoUndo0
decent rendering of fonts didnt happen to 8 - so theres yr catch. If he wants the fonts to look good then go for 8 otherwise 6. the adoption of the new flash player is very good so publishing for player 8 shouldnt be a problem
- ian0
Hey undo, thanks for the response.
Some good reading in there. I'll look over it and see if I can use the code however I think my boss my just urge me to go with a lower player version.
I find the text becomes quite rough looking cos Im not using pixel fonts. Any suggestions?
- UndoUndo0
it depends on your code, if your code is dependant on player8 you have no option. otherwise go for player 6. if you embedd the swf with swfObject you can specify the player version when its embedded and if the user has a lower version they are asked to upgrade.
- ian
Hey there, Im updating my studios website and building it in flash, tested in here and it all works fine but doesnt on my bosses computer at home.
Now its obviously an older player but what do people save their sites as? what version is acceptable? Should we export to v8 or back to v6? Im confused...