On Wed, Mar 12, 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: egged.co.il works":
>...
> Ultimately, the people needed to be convinced are decision-makers, not
> techies. Decision-makers can only be convinced by money arguments. If
>...
> Coming back to Shachar's original request for ammunition, please give
> him economic arguments in favor of standard compliance. No other
> arguments are relevant in the context, IMHO.
This is a good point, but not entirely true. Issues of discrimination
("blind people can't use your site", "10% of the Israelis can't use your
site", "Bank Hapoalim doesn't descriminate thus!") and future certainty
("the moment IE 7 comes out, your site *may* stop working!") may also mean
something to the honest, forward-looking, manager.
Of course, to a greedy manager with plans to keep his office for only the
next year and caring just about short-term profits, such arguments will not
be relevant.
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