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The Prototype library? I would, if that website was available.

Client-side Python? How long, exactly, should we wait for Internet Explorer to add support for that?

Anyone who finds basic AJAX "too complex" needs to try the Prototype library.

There are already quite a few sources of information on degrading an Ajax application gracefully for weird browsers. There's no reason those techniques can't be used to give an ajax application the same accessibility as a 'normal' site, but it would have to be written for it. Here's a link to a good article on the subject:

http://particletree.com/features/the-hows-and-whys -of-degradable-ajax/

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PDFs are so much of a pain that someone went out to make a javascript script that, inserted into each document, puts a little icon of warning indicating file type next to each link that could potentially lock the browser, your computer, and life in general (link preview)

But yeah, PDFs are annoying to no end. I see that they're useful, but why must they freeze my browser with such alarming consistency? Another curious note, whenever I close a PDF file in Firefox, adobe acrobat doesn't exit. It sits there taking up 30 megabytes of memory. I have to go control+alt+delete on its ass before it shuts down. Why's this?