Ringing Endorsement
Some guy wrote in to my employer and bashed my work on a website. I used pixels to declare the font size and he felt I should have used a relative unit. It wouldn’t have been such a problem, except he couldn’t see very well and was using IE, pretty much the only browser that won’t let you increase the font size unless it’s relative. He claimed the 14px menu looked fine to him, but the 12px text was too small for him to read. Here’s a quick excerpt from the book he wrote:
I have encountered this problem on many sites made by unprofessional webmasters. But I couldn’t even expect to see it on yours one. Every software developer knows, that software should be tested to run properly in different environments! Probably, you should hire a new webmaster and check his work more carefully.
He outright called me unprofessional and even suggested that I be fired! Can you believe the audacity? A guy that doesn’t even work in the field calling me unprofessional. Some designs don’t work with a relative unit because they’d screw up the design, making it just as inaccessible. I’m sure he’s already written to CNN, ABC News, Fox News, and CBS News, telling them that their webmasters are unprofessional and should be fired. Now if we take into account the majority of the sites in the corporate world, he’s the one looking like an outright fool.
on June 13th, 2005 at 6:52 am
Hahha Brady you should of never posted this…Because now you just proved the man right..and now you are stuck in a door that is too skinny for even you to get thru.
“I’m by no means a designer, so I gotta throw a thanks to Ian Main for the Green Marinée theme that I modified for this design. I’ll probably end up getting my brother to make me a new design, and I’ll code it up and contribute a theme back to the wordpress community, so don’t get too attached to this one”
or in short “I’m by no means a designer” You said it yourself…So I kinda think this post was umm well let’s just say well pretend you never posted it and the guy hopefully will never find your blog lmao…Later bro
on June 13th, 2005 at 9:12 am
Pfft, whatever, that dude was le retarded.
You’re wonderful and he needs glasses. Problemo solved.
on June 23rd, 2005 at 6:24 am
Dont’ worry, his penis is probably small.
This is probably the same guy that goes around driving for hours trying to find the cheapest gas, tweaks his gamma on a daily basis, demands that his bills at the bank be sequential, that refills his stapler when it’s 37% or less capacity, and cares about the brightness of his white paper.
Forget this tool. He’ll die before you do.
on November 13th, 2005 at 6:21 am
Hey, anyone that still uses IE is just plain dumb. It’s a damn shame that designers are expected to accomodate a browser that is unashamedly *evil*.
I send my love to Mozilla, for resizing images, text and having the neatest set of plug-ins around. Maybe you could educate the nice man.
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