Argh, yet another controversial 37signals post. What's with these? I think DHH has a narrow view on web design.
If you're handing your HTML/CSS to a "HTML monkey" and they don't get the "it" stuff right (as opposed to the "around" stuff), then they are a BAD HTML/CSS coder. Period.
The baseline HTML/CSS coder, in my mind, should be able to get pixel perfect (or very close to pixel perfect) designs implemented with cross browser compatilibity (at least IE6 and Mozilla).
HTML/CSS coding is in most cases a solved problem. If you have the man power to segment design from the actual implementation, then all the power to you. It'll probably be more efficient that way. Where I work, we don't have that luxury, and we all have to do a bit of everything.
If you're handing your HTML/CSS to a "HTML monkey" and they don't get the "it" stuff right (as opposed to the "around" stuff), then they are a BAD HTML/CSS coder. Period.
The baseline HTML/CSS coder, in my mind, should be able to get pixel perfect (or very close to pixel perfect) designs implemented with cross browser compatilibity (at least IE6 and Mozilla).
HTML/CSS coding is in most cases a solved problem. If you have the man power to segment design from the actual implementation, then all the power to you. It'll probably be more efficient that way. Where I work, we don't have that luxury, and we all have to do a bit of everything.