I think in the whole client-side rendering debate, a lot of people miss the fact that there is a one-to-one correspondence between JSON and a certain subset of

I think in the whole client-side rendering debate, a lot of people miss the fact that there is a one-to-one correspondence between JSON and a certain subset of HTML, that can be illustrated by the following example: {"user": {"first_name": "David", "last_name": "Hansson"}} <div class="user"> <div class="first_name">David</div> <div class="last_name">Hansson</div> </div> If, as 37signals basically seem to be doing, you restrict yourself to this subset of HTML and use CSS to do _all_ presentational styling, then honestly it’s all the same either way.