E. Litwin wrote: [...] > If you have a graphing requirement for the mobile browser version > (which you may not even have - don't know what your application is), > then the Flash requirement will be an issue.
I think you missed my point. First of all, I was using mobile browsers only as an example -- there are other environments where Flash isn't usable, enough that one should not rely on Flash for crucial app features in most cases. Anyway, with the current state of mobile phone browsers, most sites don't need a separate mobile version, so your remark about that is kind of irrelevant. Mobile browsers can be expected to deal with standard HTML and images without needing their own version of the site. (In fact, HTML is generally at its best when it's browser- and device-agnostic.) Where this falls down, though, is with Flash. Most mobile browsers simply can't display Flash content. That would be OK if the content really required Flash, but graphs are simple images of the sort that shouldn't require Flash. There is simply *no excuse* for shutting out non-Flash users solely because it made development slightly easier. > If you only need to > provide graphs for a desktop version, then I don't think requiring > Flash is a major issue. But you are wrong, since on a properly designed site, the "desktop version" is also the mobile version. (Even on sites that have a separate mobile version, I generally don't use it on my phone, since it's usually too crippled.). Anyway, one can't expect all desktop users to have Flash, as I mentioned above (internal deployment is a different story, of course). I might give different advice if the content were more than straight images, but that's not the case here. > > Eric Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
