I really appreciated this post. Everything Alex mentioned in his article I learned through trial by fire doing mobile development. Performance was critical an

I really appreciated this post. Everything Alex mentioned in his article I learned through trial by fire doing mobile development. Performance was critical and UI responsiveness was a must. It was then that it dawned on me that all the same techniques could be applied to a web application just like Alex mentioned. Most web developers seem to get stuck in the framework rut. All the tools and techniques are there to build something fast and responsive. If there is one thing I can truly appreciate about what he is trying to do with spine it's the client id generation and request queueing. This has got to be the core of what makes good "AUI". Every developer dealing with remote requests should have this in their back pocket. 101 stuff.