AJAX Requests – Data or Markup?

Just got back from the Real World AJAX seminar in NYC on Monday. Pretty good event with lots of good stories.One issue that caught my attention was the issue of how the back-end returned the data to AJAX applications. Most of the speakers preferred data, except for David Hansson from Ruby on Rails seemed to favor markup as the return type (at least that is what I understood him to say).

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