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Posted by Travis Newbury on 10/19/05 02:05
Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> said:
> Incidentally, I finished a contract today. At one point I said,
> directly to my boss' face, that the line of CSS he wanted
> (absolute font size in pixels) was written on a post-it in front
> of him. I explained to him what it did, why I wouldn't use it,
> and quite clearly not a word of it sank in. I then told him I
> simply _wasn't_ going to code such a line into the CSS because
> it was Wrong and that if that ended the contract there and then
> I was quite happy about it.
Though the example is anecdotal, Knowing you from this group it is
exactly what you should have done. (I would have been disappointed
had you said anything to the contrary.)
On the other hand, in similar situation (with web applications not
websites, but equally anecdotal) I have told contracts that what
they wanted to do was either stupid or at the very lease
ineffective as a solution. Sometimes they change, some times they
don't. I stick with them in either case. And I too get called
back on a regular basis. Sometimes to fix what I told them was
broke in the first place.
Had that contract let you go you would have won because you did
what you believed was right. I do the same.
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-=tn=-
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