[DanielBMarkham]

I love this design strategy -- used the same one for http://hn-books.com

Why code a back-end if you don't need one? You can get away with a lot more than you think you can just with a static page and the browser. With hn-books the book list exists as a static JSON file. I can put my entire site on any kind of web server -- even run it easily offline.

[revorad]

Wow, really? I would have never guessed HN-books is all client-side, but that does explain the jumpiness of the UI.