I have been thinking of doing some work with Flash and/or Flex on afeeda recently and one thing that has always held me back from considering Flex is its dependence on v9 of the flash player.
Now we have a decent amount of traffic for afeeda, I thought it would be worth taking a look at the version distribution across flash players for our visitors.
That is 89% of visitors ready to run Flex content, that is pretty reasonable. I am not planning on being dependent on any Flex so I think that is the answer I need to go ahead with investigation/development with some Flex now.
The only worrying thing is why people have such a huge distribution of v9.xxx players, I thought the flash player had an auto-update in it after a certain version so what is up with that?
Silverlight will really have to hustle to get that kind of penetration.
Disclaimer: These are the stats for afeeda only, your visitors may differ to ours.
