I have more of a general theory question for jQuery developers.  I recently completed a project written in PHP and jQuery.  Everything went very well, jQuery was nice and easy to work with.  As I developed, I put an emphasis on using only ajax calls to get data from the database and letting jQuery handle my GUI.  Basically the browser never refreshes when you use the application.  My thinking was to make it more like a Windows application and less like a web site.  From the users perspective, they never leave index.php, although on the backend, many more files are involved.

Is there a standard that any jQuery/PHP developers hold to when creating web applications?  This approach seems to work well and everyone is happy with the application, I just don't know if this is a common approach or not.

Thanks

David B.