Alternate Flash Content

Apple's popular iPad tablet computer won't display flash video. This device has 57% market share (January 2012) in the tablet market segment. If you don't provide alternate content for those users, there are unattractive blank spaces in your web pages. The iPhone has roughly 15% market share among mobile phones.

Flash content (Flash can produce images, video, or entire pages) isn't read by Search Engines or many mobile devices. Alternate Content provides a version of Flash graphical information to Search Engines and mobile device users, improving search engine results and user experience.

iPods and iPads, and many other mobile devices do not support Flash. Flash is a probable casuality of extensive video format wars between many of the large Internent players (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.). The Flash supported device percentage will probably decline, rendering websites without Alternate Content less functional. Alternate Content for Flash is good SEO and good web development.

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