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A while ago we had a big debate/argument about whether it makes sense to return partial HTML snippets from "ajax" (or really, um, "ajah", in this case?) requests from javascript; or whether instead modern apps should all move toward "javascript MVC" models with most logic in the js layer; or something in between; or maybe it depends on the app, heh. Anyway, I ran accross (on reddit I think) this interseting blog post by the developers of the ruby "Basecamp" app, explaining how they use partial HTML returns to js, and avoid "javascript MVC" except in areas where the UI really requires it; and in particular how they then have to pay a lot of attention to server-side caching to get the very snappy performance they want. Some may find it interesting. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui