Interesting discussion. I believe anyone that takes on a major web project is in trouble. The web is changing so fast and new tech
is almost constant. Today we can say the HTML5 and javascript have a fighting chance to win the hearts and minds of programmers.
But I'm not even sure of that. There has always been a cross over between the web techs (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and today several
framework people have decided to transform the three into just one - 'JavaScript'. Will it be that javascript lib's will win the day? I don't
know - but I can say - I hope not. Javascript as it stands today is a terrible language - specially for large projects. The only reason several companies have moved that direction is because it's already there in the web browser. Not because the language is eloquent.

Google on the other hand has started an effort to replace the entire underlining of the web with "Dart". Of course to get others to accept
the new way to program the web they have a hybird way of producing javascript. But their main goal is to replace all of the current web
tech. There are others that have presented other protocols in similar efforts. I wish them well because I'll be very sad if javascript wins.

Building for the web today (and all the new form factors and input methods) is like building on quicksand!

Johnf