If that’s the case, that’s just great! The people I talk about here, though, have changed their own ideals instead.

Well, why would a web developer start working for an org. with a poor website? To improve it!

Absolutely, it’s hard to come into such an organization, many of us have faced it. In my examples, though, I’m thinking of people in other situations than that, where it’s not as understandable.

It is very hard (from experience) to go into an organisation were they do NOT follow standards/ CSS style layouts etc and change it all at once. The people who are generally the worse are your bosses and it takes A LOT to change their mind, even with all the stats/ research etc.

In my example it has taken one year of hard work and while the organisation has vastly improved, it still has a long way and I have had to weaken my stances in some situations to keep the peace.

Also time is a factor as some people just want it out there and not the extra hour or so spent to clean up the code and get it working on FF2, IE6 etc

Some others don’t bother to analize and just accept a whole doctrine that in the average is closer to them.

Without a doubt, this is very true sometimes.

It is very easy to do it so, when you are not part of the process and then discover how wrong you were, up to a point when you don’t see any reason in your previous thoughts.

I think that after all, it is the natural way of leaning, you see one point, then you fall in love for a completely different one. Smart people learn to preserve parts of all of them and build a more solid and multi-sided opinion as they grow. Some others don’t bother to analize and just accept a whole doctrine that in the average is closer to them.

In some cases, yes.

Oh, absolutely, people do evolve. But if/when that happens, I wish they were more humble and honest about their past self and opinions.

Most likely, though, they simply sold out.

It’s hard to say, really. In some cases, maybe it’s money. In other cases, maybe they weren’t fully aware of the company’s stance and gradually feel compelled to completely adopt it.

Morgan,

Actually, there’s more than one person that I have in mind, but I didn’t want to turn this into name-calling or an attack on some people, and I appreciate you not doing the same.

Jrf,

Absolutely right, thanks. I was a bit tired when I wrote it…

I could offer a few suggestions, but I’d rather not, since I might be right, and in any case it’d make me look like a twat.

I do, however, agree that it’s most peculiar that some people just abandon all their opinions and readily adopt the corporate opinions.

I could never do that, I guess I am just too opinionated to begin with