Update: sorry, forgot link to the article.
This C|Net news article introduces Atlas, a client side object model for JavaScript (read DHTML) coding. My readers may know that I believe that the end of Ajax, WSRP, and Portlets leads directly to Smart Clients. It's interesting that the article itself calls JavaScript spaghetti-code. Why write spaghetti code when you could be doing Avalon+Indigo? None, unless you want to support the minority (is this true?) of systems that won't run them.