This has been bitched about more times than the number of crazy-angled in-the-mirror self-photos on MySpace, but the absolute worst is having to deal with a page of html/css/javascript/raw-sewage that looks like this:
Notice the formatting, the multiple style attributes on one tag, opening tags without closing tags, redudant tags (so you want bold and strong font?), insane nested tables for layout, etc. etc. etc.
“But it looks fine when you open it up with IE,” they say. “The client will never look at the code,” they say. “The client won’t use anything except IE. This was the fastest way to get a site up. My boss is an idiot savant that doesn’t know anything about words in general, let alone standards or best-practices and honestly I don’t give a crap about my job or skillset so here’s a hunk of crap… now change the menu,” they say. No bitterness or anger here, but as Tommy Boy says, “Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer’s sake, for your daughter’s sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.”
This is all hypothetical of course, my boss is not an idiot savant and nobody would ever consider writing code like that. But if it were true, wouldn’t it be a good thing to be complaining about poor work and striving for quality work?
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