[Sparkky]

Not to be a contrarian; but I think this is kind of throwing out the baby with the bath water.

At one point YAML, or JSON were considered new, useless technology.. Why would you need it when you have XML? Look at noSQL databases, originally dismissed as a waste of time, but now they are proving to be important technology in the current day. Technology is only "trendy garbage" in hindsight; when its new we can't tell the difference between D and C#. JavaScript thick clients have some bad examples, but to call them flash websites is a little overstating it.

Successful JavaScript applications aren't a replacement for websites, they are a replacement for software application. Calling them bad websites is really missing the point.