Elf Sternberg

"They are right that you can off load the stuff to the client, only you need completely diffent code for compliant browwsers like firefox, and need to use DOM objects for I.E and it requires the user to turn off all their safety nets."

Or, use a decent JavaScript library that handles the cross-browser support for you, like I did. (see: jQuery)

My approach works with 100% static HTML and only truly requires the addition of a bit of static JavaScript to be included. It's a write-once operation.