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As more and more people use modern ’standards’ based browswers the more and more opportunities are coming about for building very rich web applications as opposed to web pages. Now script.aculo.us has released some object oriented javascript libraries to help with all the very cool things that you can do with javascript, including true drag and drop, and live content via AJAX.

Go play with the drag and drop examples to have your socks blown off: http://script.aculo.us/drag-and-drop

The other interesting thing is that this library is going to be included in the next ruby on rails distribution. If your not sure what ruby on rails is, its basically a very cool development tool, or IDE if you like, for building web applications, and has been used on such successes as Basecamp and BackPackIt