I’d love to be able to take this approach, and often do on freelance gigs, but for my day-to-day work, I’m working for a very large company as a frond-end developer, and don’t even get to see the graphic designs (created by an outside agency, who aren’t web designers at all – just graphic designers) until they have been signed off by the business. At least I’m not required to achieve pixel-perfection cross-browser, a few pixels of padding here and there doesn’t upset them – but they do expect it to ‘broadly match’ the GD.
I’d love to be able to take this approach, and often do on freelance gigs, but for my day-to-day work, I’m working for a very large company as a frond-end developer, and don’t even get to see the graphic designs (created by an outside agency, who aren’t web designers at all – just graphic designers) until they have been signed off by the business. At least I’m not required to achieve pixel-perfection cross-browser, a few pixels of padding here and there doesn’t upset them – but they do expect it to ‘broadly match’ the GD.