2 let's start with the fact that rails escapes all html by default in normal views. In .js templates you have to do it manually 1 AJAX updates are easy, right.

2 let's start with the fact that rails escapes all html by default in normal views. In .js templates you have to do it manually 1 AJAX updates are easy, right. w/o RJS as well i don't describe my approach because my approach is different — i wrote a post about other websites' approach (RJS is used in the wild)