You were probably wondering what happened with my new best friend today?? Well today for the fifth time this week I had to explain to her that it was impossible for us to change our splash page for our homepage because it was built in flash and can only handle text-only XML components. I think the computer words "only" and "text" confused her.
"But how about we add a logo graphic instead of text?" "No."
"Could we make this an extra button?" "No. And those elements aren't buttons. They're Flash, it's a whole picture, think of it as a flat one screen movie."
"How about we could change the font to a larger size." "No. It's an XML portion imbedded in Flash. We can't change the font."
She went to my boss and checked with her. (grr!) "Maria said that I can't change this page..." My boss said "what are you checking with me for? Maria's right. If Maria says it can't be changed it can't be changed, you can depend on it. I can't give you a different answer than that, and I'll give you the same reason -- it's built in Flash. We can't change it. We know it sucks but we can't change it."
She wanted to add: and don't come and ask me to change Maria's answer ever again!
And now you all know why we're called the "No" Girls around the office.
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