Re: The responsive web site debate

That's where todomvc.com comes into play ...

Consolidates a lot resources pertaining to JavaScript frameworks, including
external references under one umbrella, nice!

One thing that stuck me was the number of inter-dependencies which exist
between the various offerings. Seems like JQuery is everywhere. Additional
other frameworks are common.

The large number of implementations and adaptations of
model-view-controller-whatever design patterns is another point. These may
be indications that folks are overly-scoping the client side of the
project, IMHO.

What should browsers do? Display page content and respond to UI events. How
do you test your code? Mouse, keyboard, and similar interactions. Anything
more than that may be an indication that your client-side code is overly
scoped, IMHO.

I also see some advantages of caching HTML templates on the client and
merging them with JSON data during the runtime. Perhaps that's one thing
that should be moved to the client.

These are just my opinions. I don't expect to have much influence in the
broad scheme of things.