By now most of us know what Ajax can do for us, but interms of basic javascripting (DOM) there were not many improvements since long time, now we have a new package of easy to work api's available with Microsoft Ajax.
http://asp.net/AJAX/Documentation/Live/ClientReference/default.aspx
Small example of simplicity introduced is..
document.getElementById("Button1").value = "new label for the button";
can be written with a simple $get method as shown below.
$get("Button1").value = "new label for the button";
Happy Scripting!!
