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The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug

Posted Aug 28, 2007 20:53 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug by frazier
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug

Photoshop can be a time saver IF you're familiar with the limitations of HTML and CSS. I've had ex-print designers come up to me with mockups and I'd have to explain, "This flow would take days to lay out and won't work in all browsers, and this rounded liquid area over here is flat out impossible." Burns up a lot of time until they get a feel for what's reasonable.

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The Grumpy Editor encounters Firebug

Posted Aug 28, 2007 23:24 UTC (Tue) by frazier (subscriber, #3060) [Link]

Very true. I started with HTML so it is easy for me, but I know what you're talking about. I worked in an ad agency for awhile in 1999-2000 and some of the things the graphic artists would hand over were not practical to implement (this was the IE3/NS4 days so there was a lot of rendering errors and limitations) or usable on a screen since they were still composing with a print mindset.

Photoshop makes it far easier to try effects and scale things than trying to do it while coding up a page. As you mention, knowing the limitations is very helpful.