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Today I noticed a list of links about eclipse on developerworks. There was a small list of links regarding web development that all focused on Java, which just seemed odd to me. I am not sure why this has never caught my attention before, but there is a lot of material regarding web development using Java or C# that has no mention of HTML outside of sparse clarification of the output.

In my mind, Web Development revolves completely around HTML (and I do mean XHTML as well). I don't mean that CSS "hacking" and XHTML "programming" is development because it really is just handling presentation details without logic. This is not a rip on those who are CSS/XHTML experts of course. I just do not consider it programming or development.

I am sure that most Java and C# web developers do understand HTML more than the articles might suggest. My only issue is that it seems that it is not in the for front of what they do. When I used to write GTK+ programs with Python, I consistently found myself learning more about GTK+ than solving hard problems. The toolkit was a crucial area that I needed to understand if I wanted to be successful. It seems this should be the same situation for web developers (Java or otherwise). Of course,I should point out that I could be totally wrong in how I see Java and C# web development. But, if the docs don't push understanding of all required technologies, then the folks reading them are not going to learn what they need to know.