[IgorPartola]

I really wish building single-page apps was better supported by browsers. The current setup is to try to kludge over the fact that DOM is for documents, not apps, and use the awfulness that is CSS and current layout paradigms (note, no CSS is strictly worse than yes CSS, but that doesn't make CSS good).

Breaking away from the DOM but keeping the ability to remotely load code and static assets would be the best of both worlds. Something like Google Maps is an application, not a document. Why are we rendering it with a document renderer? Why are we styling it with CSS, which is again, document-oriented? The good part about single page apps is that they deliver a package of code, then are able to keep local state and communicate with the server over a stateless protocol. Oh, and the current breed runs on a platform (browsers) that is installed on every PC and mobile device. Browsers just need a better format for delivering packages of code and better support for these than "manipulate the DOM".