Remember seeing this and thinking we all have that one client…
Charles Babbage put it best:
I am not rightly able to apprehend the kind of confusion that could provoke such a question.
Ha ha… That’s perfect !
When I was young and didn’t know better I was hired to make a small website for a pet company. What started as a simple broucher about their business morphed through multiple revisions into a completely custom CMS monster that had integration with their inventory system so the website always had the up to date items they carried and prices.
I had to put my foot down in the end. They were happy, everything looked and worked great, but they wanted one more thing to top it off. An animation of dogs running down through a a grassy field playing with each other around the logo. I was like, you mean hand drawn like in a Disney movie?
‘Easy! Just use AI or something. You nerds figure it out!’
-the client
It could work if the users doesn’t question why your site asks for camera permission
Yeah, could actually be a cool feature
Suspect if we went down that road though, the next thing would be - can we add some sort of filter over the camera stream, to make the potential customer look like they NEED to buy my products…
My brain hurts reading this.
I find it so cute how he cluelessly wants to have a mirror on the website. It reminds me of people wanting to download more RAM or store Wi-Fi in a box for later usage.
It reminds me of those videos where people put a piece of paper over their mirror with an object behind it, then look at it from the side and say “HOW DOES THE MIRROR KNOW?!?!”, because they cannot understand how the object behind the paper is visible in the mirror, when the paper clearly blocks its “view”.
I have to wonder what sort of model of the world someone who makes this sort of request has. How do they think mirrors work? Screens? Images?
I have given up on Logic when dealing with clients… Trying to figure out what they actually mean is never what they actually mean.
It seriously blows my mind that some of these people are like CEO status of huge companies. How they even function in every day society and remember to breath is beyond me.
Still some of the sanest requirements I’ve read
I once had one on an e-commerce store…
“The dollar sign before the price looks a little bland… Can you make it POP or doing something more interesting like make it move around or something?”
screen.black()
a blackened div titled “this is a mirror >”
Mirrors are actually slightly green.
Fun fact: mirrors are actually white. Now let’s consider that displays are not mirrors, by their attribute that they emit their own light while mirrors instead reflect it. A ‘black’ screen is usually understood to be a screen that has had its emission across all wavelengths minimised and so it’s most mirror-like property would be the reflection provided by its panel. Displays with reflective glass panels would then behave as a ‘black mirror’, particularly notable with mobile displays. Now, once you have your black mirror you can take part in the dystopian future depicted in the eponymous television series, or summon demons. Your choice.
