bcswartz

Nice post.

You might find my tableFormSynch jQuery plugin to be of interest (http://www.swartzfager.org/blog/jQuery/plugins/tableFormSynch/). It works in conjunction with the metadata jQuery plugin to store record data within each row of a table without having to display, then lets you pull out that data into a form for editing and writes the changes back to the row (updating any visual data that has changed).

So instead of coding buttons or links to pull down each record one at a time, you could pull down all of the records into a table and only make additional calls to the back-end (using your preferred AJAX methods) whenever you wanted to add, update, or delete a record.