Posted by Chaddy2222 on 10/05/07 11:58

On Oct 5, 9:19 pm, Phil Payne <p...@isham-research.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.
This is all very true, but I think in places such as Australia (where
I am) it will be just too much $$ for people to brows the web
frequently on their mobile devices.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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