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The Media Guild aims to support the development of creative talent and entrepreneurship in the fields of ICT and New Media.
Great. The website looks like this in Firefox:
and even more broken in Safari:
Those who also still think they can get away with a website that only works in Internet Explorer should definitely check out their ‘range of specialist media services’ or have their ‘concepts rapid-prototyped by the Guild’s selected apprentices’.
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Dave about 2 hours later: (delete)
Um...that website is broken in Internet Explorer, as well. It looks like more of an incompetence problem than a not-standards-compliant problem. ¶
Thijs van der Vossen about 4 hours later: (delete)
I would argue that a not-standards-compliant problem _is_ actually an incompetence problem these days. :-) ¶
Frank Oxener about 10 hours later: (delete)
In 'my' Firefox is looks OK..... Did they fix it...? ¶
Manfred Stienstra about 12 hours later: (delete)
It breaks when you scale your browser down to less than 1024x768 which probably happens on Thijs' Powerbook.
Not being standard compliant is either incompetence, neglect or lack of interest for quality. If the job is done and it looks good on your and your bosses' browser, why put in the extra effort? You'll still get paid the same... ¶
Thijs van der Vossen about 12 hours later: (delete)
I was wrong, the site looks the same in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. It's just that it breaks completely when your browser windows is less than 1024 pixels wide.
And that's equally sad. ¶
Rodney 1 day later: (delete)
Though I agree there are technical problems with that site, I find it rather sad you've decided to put then on the spot like this. Seems a bit off to me. Why not do it in a more smart, positive and possibly commercial way ? Like 37S did in the past. Instead of just putting a site on the spot actually come up with a better way and show that ?
How about some redesign advise or show how they could fix there css. Not very constructive this.
Just my cents, no bad feelings. ¶
Thijs van der Vossen 2 days later: (delete)
Rodney, this is not a technical problem. The reason this website is broken is because nobody took the time to properly test it or somebody was too lazy to properly implement the design. Looks great on the bosses' computer, looks great in PowerPoint, so why bother?
I also don't see how you could do a 37Better-type redesign for this one without just fixing their CSS and HTML for free. ¶
Frank Oxener 4 days later: (delete)
I’ agree with Rodney. You can argue whether it is an technical problem or not, but I think someone just overlooked (or has not enough experience to notice) the issue of different screen sizes. It happens to all of us and it is a mistake. (For example: have you seen http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/ in IE?)
The question is: what do you do when you see somebody making a mistake? Blame him or her for making one or give a helping hand? My choice would be the latter (that is you don’t have to solve it, but just say: ‘hey I noticed something goes wrong…’, create the possibility for the other to correct it. We’re all human and everybody makes mistakes. In fact: making mistakes is good way to learn. ‘Getting Real’ is also about making mistakes and be open about it.
For me Internet, open source, blogging etc. is all about relationships. With every contribution or post we have the potential of creating a new relationship or making an existing relationship stronger or weaker. It is my hope that if we’ve the opportunity, we choose for building a stronger network. ¶
Manfred Stienstra 4 days later: (delete)
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. It's just very ironic that an organization that is supposed to help professionals makes these kinds of mistakes. I see no fault in pointing that out. ¶