New generation Javascript/DHTML tricks?

[musicales]

Is it just me or is the kind of dhtml/javascript we're starting to see on things like Google maps just lightyears ahead of anything previously known to be possible?

Here's some of the things I'm in awe of:

1) Google suggest - clearly a DHTML pop up layer populated from a database using something like xmlhttp - but I would love to get my hands on code to do something like that.

2)Google Maps Popup boxes with 3D sloping shadows - is that a CSS/DHTML trick, if so, where do you get the examples of stuff like that?

3)Google Maps scrolling - a similar principal I think to no.1) in that what seems to happen is that as you scroll on the map new images are loaded without needing a page refresh.

4)Gmail - The complexity in the interface is quite extraordinary, and the attention to detail, so that you can hide and view messages, those little markers that appear in the corner telling you which part of the message you are in - awesome!

[Bernard Marx]

A lot of this isn't actually all that "new". It is just finally being taken seriously - partly because it is being used by such a high profile site as Google. It used to be called "Remote Scripting".
[quirksmode.org...]

Maybe Javascript will finally come back into fashion, and CSS purists will have to find another whipping boy.

[musicales]

Thanks - some of the ajax links are very cool - exactly what I was after!

[Leosghost]

Maybe Javascript will finally come back into fashion, and CSS purists will have to find another whipping boy.

Not until M$ release an Os that you can't use javascript to hack into ( indirectly ) via the browser and "destructiveX" ..;)