Re overengineered, I'm on board with what he's saying for certain circumstances. I have quite a large HTML/JS app I've written, and it's currently a little und

Re overengineered, I'm on board with what he's saying for certain circumstances. I have quite a large HTML/JS app I've written, and it's currently a little underengineered, and I'd like to refactor to add a bit of what he's done. (I've already done a lot of what he's done.) Re: async, check out jQuery 1.5's "Deferred Objects". It's quite a nice little pattern.