Yep. I've seen that (and I've seen evidence googlebot executing javascript in my own logfiles).
BUT - If I have a client relying on SEO/organic ranking for their money right now, there's no way I'd be suggesting they move to a "html template with javascript loaded content" style site - not until I've seen a few other similar/competitor sites ranking well with those techniques.
In the blog post it mentioned that is uses node.js to render server side if the templates can't be rendered client side. I'm more interested in how they are able to determine that at load time.
BUT - If I have a client relying on SEO/organic ranking for their money right now, there's no way I'd be suggesting they move to a "html template with javascript loaded content" style site - not until I've seen a few other similar/competitor sites ranking well with those techniques.