The "way we've always done it" in my brain does not like the thought of putting all the client stuff in, well, the client. I'd like to hear more about this style of development. Do you have examples of this being done, postmortems, blogs espousing this, more info, etc?
http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture Being a large company Amazon is in different stages of a transition to this form of architecture, but for the most part most all of the large companies are moving towards it IBM is embracing it as a UI development philosophy. Google pioneered it, Yahoo is well on it's way.
