Re: Spiffing up UC websites?

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From: Steve McConnell (scm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 14:20:07 PST

Most of our enhanced web features rely on Flash 4 or 5; we also do
streaming video using either RealPlayer or Quicktime, and the
chancellor's audio interviews stream through RealPlayer. The
Webcasts from ETS also depend on RealPlayer. All of those
technologies are free downloads, and we generally include
download links on the host pages from which the multimedia
content can be launched.

Our goal has been to use the simplest, most widely available
technology possible to present our enhanced content, and we've
had little to no negative feedback about our efforts. Does that mean
we're not leaving anyone out? Sadly, no; some computers are old
enough or modest enough that they can't install the required
players, or have been configured to prevent their users from doing
so. And some visitors simply choose not to bother with a software
download to play the feature. We don't have stats on what
percentage of www.berkeley.edu visitors have specific players
installed, but web-wide stats put the installed base for Flash and
RealPlayer in the mid-90%s or higher.

~ Steve
On 21 Nov 2002, at 14:03, Trish Ratto wrote:

>
> Steve - Do you have a sense of how many people on campus can access the
> news and videocasts that are using these web tools? Our work computers
> can't and I tried to view the webcast from my home computer and it couldn't
> even open it. Does anyone know what the campus standard is for sound
> cards, Flash or other applications needed for this type of spiffy stuff.
>
> Trish
>
>
> At 09:20 AM 11/21/2002 -0800, Steve McConnell wrote:
> >Debra: We're doing quite a bit of Flash and other "spiffy stuff" for
> >the UC Berkeley News pages, and more will be coming early next
> >year when we roll out a new news suite. Some examples of recent
> >work:
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >Steve McConnell
> >* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> >Web news editor, UC Berkeley
> >www.berkeley.edu/news
> >
> >510/643.7789
> >scm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
> >* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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