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Try changing the colour and getting told it isn't the same shade of red as the drawings presented by the designer on his PDF presentation.

flukus 6y ago
"It looks different on my iPad, we need it to look exactly the same everywhere" No, No you don't.
detaro 6y ago
I mean, that's totally reasonable if that's the spec (not to mention hopefully trivial to fix). Now if there's 5 drawings with different colors, or asking "what color do you want it?" leads to a 5-week email chain...
- reaperducer 6y ago
  that's totally reasonable if that's the spec I don't think you grok what's happening. Some middle manager sees a shade of red on his screen in a PDF, and the dev is expected to reproduce the content in that shade of red. There are simply too many variables. Even if you have access to the PDF, the red will often be rendered differently by the browser than it is by the PDF engine. I've had middle managers tell me to "fix" a web site because the colors looked different on his office CRT than it did on the laptop screen of a person in another building. trivial to fix Everything is trivial when someone else has to fix it.
  - hedora 6y ago
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
- Izkata 6y ago
  Oh, that's actually also pretty reasonable (sorta): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44872 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44872 I discovered that bug report after our designer noticed at a glance walking behind me (I use Firefox) that the colors on our site were far darker than she intended, somewhere around 2017-2018 (that bug was opened in 2010).
  - deathanatos 6y ago
    Yeesh my blood started to boil just reading that. I've left companies because of devs like that. People who just stand in the way of getting the software to do the correct thing. I do not understand what makes these people tick.

flukus 6y ago

"It looks different on my iPad, we need it to look exactly the same everywhere" No, No you don't.

detaro 6y ago

I mean, that's totally reasonable if that's the spec (not to mention hopefully trivial to fix). Now if there's 5 drawings with different colors, or asking "what color do you want it?" leads to a 5-week email chain...

reaperducer 6y ago
that's totally reasonable if that's the spec I don't think you grok what's happening. Some middle manager sees a shade of red on his screen in a PDF, and the dev is expected to reproduce the content in that shade of red. There are simply too many variables. Even if you have access to the PDF, the red will often be rendered differently by the browser than it is by the PDF engine. I've had middle managers tell me to "fix" a web site because the colors looked different on his office CRT than it did on the laptop screen of a person in another building. trivial to fix Everything is trivial when someone else has to fix it.
- hedora 6y ago
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Izkata 6y ago
Oh, that's actually also pretty reasonable (sorta): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44872 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44872 I discovered that bug report after our designer noticed at a glance walking behind me (I use Firefox) that the colors on our site were far darker than she intended, somewhere around 2017-2018 (that bug was opened in 2010).
- deathanatos 6y ago
  Yeesh my blood started to boil just reading that. I've left companies because of devs like that. People who just stand in the way of getting the software to do the correct thing. I do not understand what makes these people tick.