This is bait, but it’s tasty, so I’ll take it. > Ultimately, even as HTML has become the province of professionals, it cannot be gatekept. This is what makes s

This is bait, but it’s tasty, so I’ll take it. > Ultimately, even as HTML has become the province of professionals, it cannot be gatekept. This is what makes so many programmers so anxious about the web, and sometimes pathetically desperate to maintain the all-too-real walls they’ve erected between software engineers and web developers. But people who write HTML know that hierarchies were made to be blown up. All it takes is a tag that doesn’t close where you’d expect it to. Programmers don’t give two shits about people who write HTML. Furthermore, the idea that programmers are anxious to keep others from learning how to program is absurd. There is probably two orders of magnitude more free programming instruction material—often published for free by programmers who are just excited to share the joy that a particular technology has given them—than there is for any other discipline.