Web Development Pet Peeve: This Site Best Viewed By ...
It only takes a little looking around the web (even among professional web developers) to find the words "This site best viewed by...
" emblazoned somewhere for all to see (as if it were something to be proud of.
) A quick Google search shows several hundred million results.
This particularly abhorrent practice is a major pet peeve of mine.
It means that someone was too lazy to do their job properly and probably got paid for it anyway.
That's just wrong.
There's also the implication that any site visitor not using the specific browser, browser version, or screen resolution listed as "acceptable" by this particular wannabe webmaster (or better yet, "webfailure") just deserves whatever garbage comes out on their screens.
You'd think that no one else had ever heard the story of The Emperor's New Clothes.
I keep trying to imagine what day to day life would be like if this practice were adopted by any other industry.
Can you imagine a television station that advertised the best brand of television on which to watch their broadcast and was unconcerned by the fact that their signal was blurry or unwatchable on any other brand? Can you imagine a sign outside your local grocery store that said, "This parking lot best used by Toyota Camrys, 1995 or later, 2-door, not 4-door.
" Tell me you wouldn't want to stick some massive, old RV across 14 of those parking spaces and dare anyone to say a word.
People, the time has come to end this practice once and for all! There have been efforts and all-out campaigns to do this before, but they've had very little success.
I have a plan that I think could be pretty effective.
I call it my "Many Happy Returns Plan.
" It goes like this:
" on a website is if they're followed by the words "...
anyone in any browser they prefer.
" If you don't know how to do this, ask, search the web, learn, find out.
Don't just stick some piece of garbage site up and charge a client for it.
In the immortal words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Make it so.
"
" emblazoned somewhere for all to see (as if it were something to be proud of.
) A quick Google search shows several hundred million results.
This particularly abhorrent practice is a major pet peeve of mine.
It means that someone was too lazy to do their job properly and probably got paid for it anyway.
That's just wrong.
There's also the implication that any site visitor not using the specific browser, browser version, or screen resolution listed as "acceptable" by this particular wannabe webmaster (or better yet, "webfailure") just deserves whatever garbage comes out on their screens.
You'd think that no one else had ever heard the story of The Emperor's New Clothes.
I keep trying to imagine what day to day life would be like if this practice were adopted by any other industry.
Can you imagine a television station that advertised the best brand of television on which to watch their broadcast and was unconcerned by the fact that their signal was blurry or unwatchable on any other brand? Can you imagine a sign outside your local grocery store that said, "This parking lot best used by Toyota Camrys, 1995 or later, 2-door, not 4-door.
" Tell me you wouldn't want to stick some massive, old RV across 14 of those parking spaces and dare anyone to say a word.
People, the time has come to end this practice once and for all! There have been efforts and all-out campaigns to do this before, but they've had very little success.
I have a plan that I think could be pretty effective.
I call it my "Many Happy Returns Plan.
" It goes like this:
- Everyone starts contacting the real owners of these sites and telling them to get their money back.
It's clear that the person they paid to do this was either too incompetent to do it properly or too lazy to finish the job.
They should get their money back to pay someone else who knows what the heck they're doing.
It's only fair.
I think that a few well-publicized lawsuits would end this particular trend in laziness.
" on a website is if they're followed by the words "...
anyone in any browser they prefer.
" If you don't know how to do this, ask, search the web, learn, find out.
Don't just stick some piece of garbage site up and charge a client for it.
In the immortal words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Make it so.
"
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