Contact Us  The Ignorant Client vs. The Passionate Developer
Posted on 4/10/06 by Felix Geisendörfer  As some of you might
have suspected for years,- our fine field of web development is
a place of war. The alliance of passionate web developers who
care about standards, good code, accessibility, usability and
other things are in a constant hate/love relationships with the
union of clients who know as much about this field as some
presidents know about 'nucular' weapons. The battlefield is
filled with table layouts, WYSIWYG editors, inaccessible web 2.0
sites and bad code.  I think one of the biggest issues thesese
days is, that we, the passionate developers, try to create
systems a 10 year old could use. We fall for the clients
demanding Word-like WYSIWYG editors and build right management
systems for people we wouldn't trust to spell out the word
'Security'. And to make it even worse, the people we work for
consider our work to be something everybody could do. The 90s
created a mindset saying that everybody