Posted by Phil Payne on 10/05/07 13:18

> > Don't you know that any technology you don't like is obsolete?

> Apparently!

(Can we do some more trimming, guys?)

WML/WAP was the exciting technology of the future that would take over
from everything. Now dead.

> > What he's ignoring is that most web surfing is NOT done on phones.

Five years ago most web surfing was not done on broadband. WiFi was
an unknown technology.

Now you have, e.g., http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/bt_fon_wimax/
where BT lets you use other people's private WiFi routers if you open
up your own - so you can walk down the street with your handheld and
surf. Most of the public house chains in the UK have WiFi - Sheffield
City Council (where I live) has a public system covering hte whole of
the City Centre.

> yes. And that many smart phone are actually Flash enabled too.

Flash Lite is to Flash as WML is to XHTML/CSS. And anyway - why do
everything THREE times? Once for the Flash enabled, once for those
who can't use Flash even if they want to (see the original subject of
this thread - it's a LEGAL requirement in the UK to provide an
alternative under the Disability Discrimination Act) and again for
Flash Lite.

Why not do it just once?

> > also, I can't help it if his phone is old and obsolete. Maybe he needs
> > to get an updated one.

He he. I'm in the UK, you idiot.

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