Posted by SpaceGirl on 10/05/07 12:41

On Oct 5, 12:58 pm, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailbox-
sicur...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

The irony being? Flash files can be, much, much smaller than average
web pages. You can get a complete UI inside just a few Kb.

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