[thelist] developer ethics?

[Eöl]

My $0.02US.  If it doesnt' directly involve you or
your corporation...why the hell do you care?  By
pointing out errors, you gain nothing but animosity
from the contractor (who btw works in your field,
something you don't want).  The corporation isn't
going to pay you and neither is the contractor.

If the contractor wants to design a crappy site and
the biz is ok with it (whether by choice or
ignorance), that is their problem, not yours.

A good analogy would be if I see you driving 28mph in
a 25mph zone, I should call the cops on your since you
are violating some standard (law), not giving the
public what they want (public wants 25mph, you are
going 28mph), not following the clients directives
(road==client, road states 25mph), and so forth.

Web designers piss me off all the time with bad code,
but that the way life works.  Unless you are offering
to teach them or fix the problems for free, stay out
of it.

If I lived off judging other peoples works, I would
never be happy.  In my head, unless its xhtml1.1 /
css/ bobby validated, its bad coding.  99.9% of sites
don't meet this.  Yet I don't call out my fellow web
designers who validate xhtml1.0 strict.

cheers,

Eöl (who attempts to stay of others business and
expects them to do the same)

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