I think you missed the main point: 5. Bottom line - drives away potential business (customers, partners) and misses the whole point of having a web site.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Oron Peled > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mila Tova on Bank Leumi site and linux/mozilla client > > > 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). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron > > He who sacrifices functionality for ease of use > Loses both and deserves neither > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ---------- Your email is protected by Mailshell ---------- > As you requested, this email was forwarded to you by Mailshell. > Mailshell will forward your replies to this email and keep your > private email address safe. > > To unsubscribe safely and easily using Mailshell or to stop > forwarding: > http://www.mailshell.com/control.html?a=blshp8bbumg87yq1j9157q v2pz6_58z35eg0 FreshAddress.com http://rd.mailshell.com/ad482 Earn up to $3 for each of your friends who signs up with Mailshell! http://rd.mailshell.com/sp5 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
