> >
> >ROFL!
> >
> >The first job I worked at after college had a print designer as the
> >lead.  He always did things in 300dpi... and then griped when we had
> >to take it down to 72dpi for web safe graphics.  Man could not get 
> it
> >through his head that 300 dpi images wouldn't render correctly in 
> 2001
> >era IE.  He also didn't understand why things looked differently on
> >his Mac than on our PC's.
> >
> >Hatton
> 
> Speaking of that. I had a side job a while ago where the requirement 
> were a full CSS verified site for a design firm's client. So no tables 
> for layouts etc. I did a great job at it, Full verification with W3C 
> and section 508. And it looked real good. 
> 
> The client had a fit - after preaching about wanting things to be CSS 
> compliant etc. he claimed there were gaps everywhere, images not 
> showing up and so on. I asked him what browser he was on - IE. So I 
> opened up IE on my PC and it looked just fine. Tried making changes to 
> accommodate him it didn't help. I could not see anything on my copy of 
> IE that he was complaining about. So he sent me a full screen shot of 
> the page. It was painfully obvious then that he was on IE 5 for the 
> Mac. I went back to the company that hired me and explained things. I 
> gave them a table layout and walked away.

I forgot to add, the client had IE 5 - for the Mac. Not only did it seem to me 
that he was clueless but obsolete clueless at that.


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