The downside is the average Joe thinks this stuff is easy enough and he should do it professionally. And then: - Market floods with professionals who antagoniz

The downside is the average Joe thinks this stuff is easy enough and he should do it professionally. And then: - Market floods with professionals who antagonize proper web developers, since, to unknoweledgeable clients, the result appears to be the same - Web floods with sites that behave in unpredictable ways in different browsers - Proper developers carry the burden of dealing with idiosyncrasies of various browsers - Browser developers carry the burden of trying guess through amazingly creative atrocities Although, to be honest, things don't look as grim as they used to regarding the middle two. I just wish some people would stick to HTML and stopped brute-forcing javascript to work.