Yeah, the point of Angular is not to "program in html", just to have declarative html for dealing with the DOM and otherwise program in JS. I totally agree for

Yeah, the point of Angular is not to "program in html", just to have declarative html for dealing with the DOM and otherwise program in JS. I totally agree for server-side templates that there are limited benefits (designer friendly perhaps) to a template as valid HTML. However, when you want to make your HTML interactive (2-way data binding) in an unobtrusive way, you are forced to understand html. A good example I went over is how would you bind data to a checkbox automatically? I think you are advocating the Ember.js approach, which uses a function call to represent a checkbox, but a plain tag is actually much easier to understand: http://tunein.yap.tv/javascript/2012/06/11/javascript-frameworks-and-data-binding/ http://tunein.yap.tv/javascript/2012/06/11/javascript-framew...