On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:43:40 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, working as a web programmer for a long time now, you can't imagine how
> childish bosses are.
Good point. So it's the same struggle we see everywhere in the software field
about PHB's and Marketoids forcing non-professional decisions on their techies.
So we should really fight this battle not only on a practical basis
(these sites are problematic for us), but also on "ideological" basis
(this web software sucks and contains proprietary code -- we think it's
bad for everybody).
Of course the many practical arguments raised so far will help demonstrate
the problem. So let's try to compose a partial list:
1. Maintenance hell for upgrades
2. Should retest for many versions of proprietary products
(e.g: Flash versions)
3. Non-professional image in the eyes of tech-people (no standards compliance,
no thorough testing) may inflict on the name of the company.
4. Small but important market (non-Windows, many tech-people)
may be lost.
Since PHB's couldn't care less for [1,2,4] I think maybe item 3
should be stressed. Maybe instead of calling a company webmaster
about "your page doesn't work with Linux/Mozilla/Whatever" we should call
the marketing department with "Whoever designed your web pages haven't
done a professional job. It may deteriorates your public image without
you knowing about it... We will be happy to give technical details to
your relevant representatives".
What do you think? Is this approach too aggressive? (reaching the
web design team from above).
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