Posted by Phil Payne on 10/05/07 11:19

> That's an extremely ignorant statement.

> Flash is the fastest growing online market. Flash video is THE single
> fastest growing technology at the moment. I'm really shocked by your
> statement.

This is from IPSOS over a year ago:

http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=3049

"Globally, just over one-fourth (28%) of mobile phone owners worldwide
have browsed the Internet on a wireless handset, up slightly from 25%
at the end 2004. Interestingly, growth in this behavior for 2005 was
driven by the older users (age 35+), indicating that surfing the
Internet on a mobile phone is emerging as a mainstream activity, no
longer dominated by the traditional early adopter segment - young
males - typical of many new consumer technologies."

Since then we've had Apple weigh with the iPhone and a whole raft of
other suppliers bring other products to market. The vast,
overwhelming majority of handsets currently sold have some sort of
browser embedded and often a better one available for download.
Openwave, Opera, Safari, etc.

http://www.operamini.com/beta/features/ - find where it mentions
Flash.

Flash is just form over function - it sells because it's pretty and
that fools many site creator's clients.

>From the Webmaster Guidelines:

"If you're using text to try to describe something search engines
can't access - for example, Javascript, images, or Flash files -
remember that many human visitors using screen readers, mobile
browsers, browsers without plug-ins, and slow connections will not be
able to view that content either."

Now take another look at the growth of the browser-capable handset
market.

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