Ian,
I agree that's probably a good idea. Since it will be ajax based and the load on the php side of things (as well as page size) will drop.
Matter of fact, for all my mods, i don't see why someone would be putting them into a 7.1x right now. Best to wait for 7.2 or later.
Good to note however, most of them aren't different with respect to whether they are intstalled on a 7.1 or 7.2