Badly coded websites

Posted Sep 1, 2024 17:53 UTC (Sun) by Heretic_Blacksheep (guest, #169992)
In reply to: Badly coded websites by farnz
Parent article: A SpamAssassin surprise

I think a lot of this has to do with how many companies hire code boot camp 'programmers' who may know how to write generic code in whatever language the code boot camp used, but only have superficial information about how anything else on the computer, networks, and such actually work. All they want is a website that does X, Y, and Z, won't pay more than N USD, and they basically get what they paid for.

That may be fine for personal, or small business pages that are largely just a static advertisement for a person or business, but anytime you need more than that these graphic design houses aren't qualified.

Badly coded websites

Posted Sep 2, 2024 8:42 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Combine that with an effort to minimise the number of back end errors you see (certainly the case with the e-mail and credit card ones I saw), where you're trying not to send data to the back end if you "know" it's invalid, and you have something that apparently works until you get real users on it.

The trouble is that when you try to fix "mistakes" by the user (and I have no doubt that some users would type their expiry of 1/23 into the CV2 box as 123), you have to ensure that this can't be a genuine user - asking "are you sure - 123 looks like it might be your card expiry" is OK to reduce back end error rates, but "123 is not a valid CV2" is simply wrong, when it's the number on my card.