> AJAX

First off, that's a retarded acronym made up by some consulting company to make themselves sound important, and Slashdot fell for it hook-and-sinker. It's meaningless, misapplied and retarded.

Second, of course it won't make a static webpages any better. That's hardly the point, is it? The point is to make applications.

Look, I made one: http://wakaba.c3.cx/desktop-test/desktop.pl (login "test, password "test").