Posted by dorayme on 10/06/07 09:28

In article <Xns99C114437E063arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in news:doraymeRidThis-
> 118B39.07520506102007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>
> > In article
> ><1191583146.710342.51170@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
> > Phil Payne <phil@isham-research.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> "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.
> >
> > How come I don't know a single person who does this? Sure, be as
> > cruel as you like... <g>
> >
>
>
> On a brighter note - the boss called me (whilst on vacation) and
> announced that everyone was going to be surfing on their phone, and so I
> had to do whatever I could to get the site ready for phones. I called
> her back in a few minutes and told her it already was. Then I told her
> this was one of the reasons I was such a B---H about valid, semantic
> code, and NOT opening off site links in new windows. I said "Wha da ya
> gonna do, open up a new PHONE?" Smile. Now, I just have to get her
> weaned off IE6.

Try getting her on IE7 as a stepping? No, maybe not, it may seem
even better than IE6 to her and that will that!

Here in Australia, it is not cheap to enable internet on the
mobile phone. I have an internet capable phone but cannot think
of any reason to get it online. I even prefer texting people via
my desktop rather than fiddle with the tiny buttons.

I did load some bits of sites of my own via the usb for off line
viewing and it sort of works but is a very poor experience. I
guess I have a crappy phone. But what you are saying does reminds
me to look into things a bit. But I just don't believe the 28%
figure and I don't know what it means anyway, how the
measurements are made. I suspect there is a lot of hollowness in
the interpretation.

--
dorayme

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