Many gentlemens here may have encountered a situation that the customer request to build the web UI using Flash rather than Silverlight. Their number one concern is usually the installed base.
Has anyone seen any report or estimation on this figure?
Side note: show them how Silverlight is commonly faster than Flash, even without the hardware acceleration.
http://www.shinedraw.com/. I too am curious about the rate of infection between both the Silverlight and Flash viruses.
Yes looks like it also get's send into the Request Header. Only thing was in my case I wanted to log inside Google Analytics so I was not able use this data very easily.
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Silverlight installed base
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Many gentlemens here may have encountered a situation that the customer request to build the web UI using Flash rather than Silverlight. Their number one concern is usually the installed base.
Has anyone seen any report or estimation on this figure?
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This way you can find out, the stats that are equal to your own visitors instead of the visitors going to Microsoft.com.
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Mar 09, 2009 01:16 AM | LINK
Thanks. Google Analytics custom scripts really gives a good reference of Silverlight installed base of our customers.
This also leads me thinking of another way. i.e. our own web log.
In the HTTP request header, we can see something like:
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-silverlight, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, application/x-silverlight-2-b1, */*
I believe above can be an indicator of Silverlight support. But I will double check.
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