This is just typical push back from trying to make someone do something in a way that is different from what they're used to . Sounds like they are mostly jQuer

This is just typical push back from trying to make someone do something in a way that is different from what they're used to . Sounds like they are mostly jQuery devs who throw lots of explicit DOM manipulation around to get done what they want. Knockout (and other libraries like it) turn manual DOM manipulation into something stateful and object-based. That said, unobtrusive event handling that comes packaged with knockout might make the transition easier for them (http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/unobtrusive-event-handling.html http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/unobtrusive-event-handli...).