[clifanatic]

> using plain old javascript and HTML is fine.

It's fine if it's a single-person's decision. If two or more people are involved in any sort of standardization process, you're going to go back and forth until you land on the most complicated possible approach like in the article.

[marrs]

that depends a lot on how well they can work together. This is also where good team leaders add a lot of their value.