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Thanks goodness. My life was hell when I was working for an Indian outsourcing giant where they made web application like an assembly line.

The designer were hired from school which taught only print media design. They made PSD mockups which arrived at frontend developers who would then make HTML out of it with dummy data.

For example say you are designing a charting app for a banking company, They would create pie chart in PSD and then ask the frontend devs to convert into HTML. So these people use to put those charts as image. When it arrived with us the backend team, we use to realize that this graph needs to be dynamic. If we use any other charting library it use to look ugly with overall design.

Not to mention if the webpage does not look pixel perfect in FF and IE it would go as a bug. Countless human hours were wasted in making corners round in IE.

The real interesting part was that, the baking giant did not give a shit about the design in first place neither about the browser compatibility. It was meant for their say 30-40 employees who could simply switch to FF if they did not like sharp edges in IE.

In the battle of egos between the designer and testers we were screwed.