[tialys]

As someone who's just getting started with Backbone, I'd be very interested to see that talk, and here suggestions for what to do instead of 'this.model.view = this'.

[StavrosK]

If Spine is anything to go by, you bind events from the view to the model and then trigger them from your code on the model instance.

[jashkenas]

Usually that's the case -- but if you know for certain that there's a one-to-one relationship between a model and it's view, then there's no harm in having a direct reference for convenience. Pragmatism > Purity, where UI code is concerned.

[StavrosK]

I agree with you. I'm concerned about memory leaks from the circular references, though.

[jashkenas]

Circular references are garbage collected -- no need to worry about them.

You might be thinking of a terrible old IE bug where circular references between JavaScript objects and DOM nodes were never collected, but that's never been an issue with JavaScript-only references.

[StavrosK]

Oh, I didn't know that. That alleviates many of my concerns, then, thank you.

[joubert]

The Responder pattern used in SproutCore (inspired by Cocoa) is very elegant.