I think he might have just been too lazy (or bored) to rip it out. The pass-through is a different argument from jsfc. I think jsfc is completely and utterly useless. I see no value in it. I do see the value in the pass-through for quick stuff. But even then, all that is being passed through is the xml and doctype declaration, and the CDATA, all which happen to be causing us issues with IE. (Remember, I'm not objecting to passing raw HTML tags straight through, that is why Facelets is so successful. I'm talking more about the document wrappers).

-Dan