Just Design
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Oh cmon guys, its definitely not a negative. Taking what you said above and applying it to other media, would you really call it an asset for a designer to not know anything about the printing process if they are working on a print job? Knowing everything is not required either, but clearly the one who knows the most is going to get the best technical result and make the fewest mistakes.
IMO web typography, CSS, etc, should be all viewed as an extension of the design and not some kind of afterthought. I enjoy writing the styles and code and putting as much thought into them as the visual design.
If you have someone you can hand it off to, great, but that's not always the case. It totally depends on the organization though, and designer not needing to code really isn't unusual for many jobs. So whatever, but in an age where 14 year old kids can put a website up, its kind of dumb not to know anything.