Yeah, I boggled at that too. But I was the first front-end person they'd hired - they'd let the back-end devs do it before, and they were the type that thought because front end is "easier" that anyone can do it and you don't have to actually work at it.

My skills have deteriorated so much - I used to be able to hand code, and now I've forgotten how to clear floats. If I ever get back into HTML prototyping, I do need to pick up jQuery (though I'd be more likely to use Axure now, just because you can't expect everyone to code).