One of the biggest requests we get when a client wants to design a brand new website is flash technology with music and all of the fun moving parts available in a flash designed website.  What we try to immediately do is talk the client out of developing a website entirely in flash mainly because of the fact that the iPad and iPhone/iTouch devices do not support Flash.  If you visit a flash website from your iPhone, you will see a completely blank page.  The only way to design a flash website correctly is to offer an alternate non-flash version of your website that will auto-detect Apple and other handheld devices and will give everyone else a choice to enter the hi-resolution flash site or the low-resolution html website.

Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley is the lead Internet Analyst and has been dubbed the ‘Queen of the Net’ because of her extensive knowledge of internet trends.  According to her latest State of the Internet report, social networking and mobile internet will be the two most overwhelming online trends of this technology cycle.  She predicts that within the next 5 years, more people will connect to the internet via their mobile device than desktop computers.  Out of all of those mobile devices connecting to the internet currently, almost 65% of them are iPhones.  Add to that number that Apple sold 3 million iPads in only 80 days and you see the overwhelming reasons why flash should be used more and more sparingly on websites.

The reasons have varied and rumors have swirled for years on why Steve Jobs will not support Flash Technology on any of Apple’s devices.  There were so many requests that he had to lay the rumors to rest and publish an article detailing exactly why Apple will never support Flash on any of it’s devices.  You can read the article here.