Oh wow, I would be lost without the Web Developer tools.
but I ended up punching things!
This! This is exactly what prompted this whole rant! No, I don't do web design very often (and a large portion of the why is also that statement!) but when I do I get so frustrated trying to make it work across the various browsers. I will never understand why they all have to do everything so differently and I don't just mean the different engines, the engines all serve a purpose and handle various tasks in different ways, I mean make the various engines standard compliant so when the various end products get to the viewer it hasn't cost some poor designer/coder half a head of hair, several years of their life and a wall that now needs patching!
But then print is no better. If I start thinking about the various colour profiles (Machine, OS, Monitor, does whatever is being designed also have to be web compliant and oh god the printer colour profiles ... don't get me started on printer profiles) I get the overwhelming urge to hide in a corner sobbing and mumbling interesting things like "It's not red, too much blue, the cyan is bleeding!"
err ... yeah. And it should now be abundantly clear why I stopped doing design professionally. *edited for typing fail
no subject
This! This is exactly what prompted this whole rant! No, I don't do web design very often (and a large portion of the why is also that statement!) but when I do I get so frustrated trying to make it work across the various browsers. I will never understand why they all have to do everything so differently and I don't just mean the different engines, the engines all serve a purpose and handle various tasks in different ways, I mean make the various engines standard compliant so when the various end products get to the viewer it hasn't cost some poor designer/coder half a head of hair, several years of their life and a wall that now needs patching!
But then print is no better. If I start thinking about the various colour profiles (Machine, OS, Monitor, does whatever is being designed also have to be web compliant and oh god the printer colour profiles ... don't get me started on printer profiles) I get the overwhelming urge to hide in a corner sobbing and mumbling interesting things like "It's not red, too much blue, the cyan is bleeding!"
err ... yeah. And it should now be abundantly clear why I stopped doing design professionally.
*edited for typing fail