I did my last webdevelopment in the early noughties, so I have little skin in the game. My mental summary of this debate is that if you need your browser to be

I did my last webdevelopment in the early noughties, so I have little skin in the game. My mental summary of this debate is that if you need your browser to be a universal turing machine instead of a renderer, you are probably not doing it the RESTful way. Whether that is a bad thing, is a matter of opinion.