It’s pretty cool what some folks are able to do with just javascript (no flash required). Check out lightbox.js and click on an image. At the other end of the scale, it’s amazing what some folks can do with plain css (no javascript required). Check out the famous Suckerfish dropdowns, or the revamped multi-hierarchical Son of Suckerfish. Hand tooled code can be so…beautiful. Compared to the reams of generic noise that monolithic web programs generate it’s pure poetry.