TL;DR - All of these problems could be found and solved by proper testing.
I enjoyed parts of this article and was left with one overarching theme - web developers really need to learn proper testing techniques (and their employers/clients need to learn why QA is important).
How many ad agencies have taken to calling themselves interactive agencies? How many of these have dedicated QA teams with different devices and a good array of testing tools? How many of the developers who work for companies like this get time to test their sites? How many hear "if you were better at your job, you wouldn't need to test sites"?
I'd also suggest that business schools start teaching marketing students to build simple web apps. A pint says that many of these problems stem from young marketers who want to be edgey, despite having no clue where the edges lie. My University has an Online Marketing course, but they don't teach anything more advanced than building a spreadsheet with multiple worksheets in Excel. Maybe this just proves that marketing is too important to leave in the hands of marketers...
I enjoyed parts of this article and was left with one overarching theme - web developers really need to learn proper testing techniques (and their employers/clients need to learn why QA is important).
How many ad agencies have taken to calling themselves interactive agencies? How many of these have dedicated QA teams with different devices and a good array of testing tools? How many of the developers who work for companies like this get time to test their sites? How many hear "if you were better at your job, you wouldn't need to test sites"?
I'd also suggest that business schools start teaching marketing students to build simple web apps. A pint says that many of these problems stem from young marketers who want to be edgey, despite having no clue where the edges lie. My University has an Online Marketing course, but they don't teach anything more advanced than building a spreadsheet with multiple worksheets in Excel. Maybe this just proves that marketing is too important to leave in the hands of marketers...