If you want to get under the skin of developers, just start talking to them about web standards. Specifically the idea of them building client side code which complies with standards such as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2 (probably the two most commonly followed ones at the moment) and, dare I suggest, WCAG 1.0 (Accessibility)....
One thing that bugs me about third party plug-ins is that they always seem to need a bit of code cleaning up in order to make them standards-compliant. I always ensure I validate my site against XHTML 1.0 Transitional and typically it has been the plug-ins from YouTube, Google and now SpringWidgets that have needed...
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