The possibilities are more than a little frightening. On the surface, Web designers would seem to have the coolest job in the world. But surfaces can lie. Designers are increasingly frustrated by a Technology Gap, an Expectation Gap, and the ancient gap between Art and Commerce. Designers push at the leading edges of the technology, demanding smarter scripting, more advanced languages than we have now, and more precise rendering of the languages we have already.
Designers push at the leading edges of the interface.
They are tired of underlines and menu bars. They want to burn down the house, and forge newer, better interfaces in the fire. Designers work with Web stuff ten hours a day. They get it, they got it, they are ready to move on. But the technology lags, upgrade adoption rates lag.