Pedro Sttau

So I had a presentation scheduled with a prospect client a couple of days ago, and was feeling pretty confident heading to the meeting.

I was going to make a brief presentation about our companies services and talk a little about the proposal that we had sent them and etc…

Arrived at the client’s office, waiting for me was a fantastic huge plasma screen where our client’s site was being displayed.

While I stood across the Plasma screen the client was going through every internal page of the site explaining to me what they wanted done. I can’t recall the particular reason, but I needed to explain a functionality that I wanted to apply in a particular page and asked the client to browse our company’s site.

I started to hear some giggles but tried to concentrate on my task and didn’t even think of looking at the Plasma screen to see what it was all about! The client didn’t interrupt me and I kept going on and on about how fantastic and scalable our solutions were and how we applied the technology to our site etc..
I turned to the screen to pin point a particular item on our site and BAM! Our site’s home page was completely shattered by IE7. I mean the top boxes were misaligned; the entire footer was dragged on top of the centre content area, pure carnage!

What the hell!? Our development processes are very clear on cross browser compatibility! We always test out our apps on IE 5 to 6, Firefox, Opera, Safari. Oh right… there is a new IE version!

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