Myself and a few other chromium folks have been working on a design for a formalized separation between View and Model in the browser, with needs of web applications being the primary motivator.
Our ideas are implemented as an experimental Javascript library: https://code.google.com/p/mdv/ and the basic design is described here: http://mdv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/design_intro.html. It's not complete and there are things we're not happy with, but it's self-consistent enough that you can start to imagine what a full design might look like. We hope to get others interested in collecting requirements/use cases and fleshing out a good solution. We're starting the discussion here because a few people in this group from whom we got early feedback felt that it would be most appropriate place and, further, that this work bears some relation to XBL. What do you think?
