[bbcbasic]

I was thinking the same thing. The only reason I think to use Intercoooler is for very simple scenarios, or for people who perfer the server side programming and want to minimise JS programming. Which I can relate to to some extent.

Having said that, I've been doing a side project in KnockoutJS and it isn't much harder than IC. You mark up the HTML and need a little bit of JS to call the api. So it would be like your example but with a line or two removed. And like your example as soon as you desire to do something custom you just add some more code.

On the service side you emit JSON instead of HTML and this can be easier IMO - virtually every language has a JSON library and you just convert your ORM objects to JSON (or just use them as-is!). That is less work than rendering HTML I would have thought.

[unethical_ban]

you nailed it. I don't want to do JS. I know enough Python to get by, I'm writing a small webapp with some API hooks (internal webapp) and I'd like to have some AJAX-y components. While I don't know if this is powerful enough for everything, the idea of "click on <button> to retrieve data and place in <div>" is really awesome. Doing it in HTML-only is much easier for my peon-non-genius mind.