"The problem is, strictly separating designers from developers has resulted in a Web built by people frightfully unaware of the standards and technologies required to make it go. Most Web pages today extend well beyond the limited scope of HTML, and a good many of them bring together a "pure" programming language like Java or C++ (you know, real code with control structures and variables and stuff) with healthy chunks of JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, and oh, don't forget, XML."
This just feeds my assertion that the dot-com boom was the worst thing to happen to software engineering practice in computer history. The bust was harrowing and the good and bad alike were cut down, but, the boom is what fostered the legacy of bad practice and unrealistic expectations that we have to fight today.
The new movement to introduce engineering principles back into web development shops should be unnecessary.
