[amatriain]

Well, I don't fully agree with this guy (I think I don't, actually I'm not fully sure of where he's going). But I've also thought for some time that user-side scripting in modern AJAX apps is getting ridiculous. If you look at the javascript code generated for a GWT app, for instance, it's quite large and hardly understandable.

I don't know, web app development sometimes feels a lot like trying to turn screws with a hammer. HTML4 wasn't really designed to support dynamic applications, yet we've made it work, more or less, by abusing and patching. Nevertheless it was designed for static content, and it shows.

I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with HTML5 yet, so I don't know if it changes this, but from what little I've read it doesn't seem so.