M>Если язык — динамически типизирован, но при этом строго типизирован (Erlang ), то особых аргументов в пользу статической типизации не вижу вообще.

Dynamically typed languages deserve to die, because they are impure, do not have type systems, have no abstraction facilities, and you cannot even be sure that a program written in such a language will not get you into jail, nuke the planet, or kill your relatives. This in stark contrast to statically typed languages, who enjoy His Divine Favor.

Resistance is futile.

(http://www.tutorials-blog.com/functional/Erlang-survive/ !!! осторожно, страница под 1 мб)

There are some original design decisions that make retrofitting a static type system difficult. Two of the big ones are dynamic code loading and the message passing, but there are most likely lots of small snags where functions would have been designed with different semantics (and different type signatures!) if dynamic typing weren't available. This is of course partly the "much work" argument again, but the combination of dynamic typing and advanced pattern matching is a core characteristic of Erlang, which, for one thing, leads people to happily write code that would require a PhD on type systems to even compile in e.g. ML or Haskell.

A><binding id="searchbar-box">
A>  <content>
A>    <children/>
A>    <xul:stack class="search-go-button-stack">
A>      <xul:toolbarbutton class="search-go-button" label="&search.button.go.label;"/>
A>    </xul:stack>
A>  </content>
A></binding>
A>

$("#searchbar-box > *").append("<input class=\"search-go-button\">");

$("a").not("[href^=/]").not("[href^=#]").append("<span class=\"External\">^</span>");

bindSearchBeautifier : function(objectList)
{
    o.focus(function() {
        if ($(this).val() == "Type your search here...") {
        $(this).val("");
        }
    }).blur(function() {
        if ($(this).val() == "") {
        $(this).val("Type your search here...");
        }
    });
}

bindSearchBeautifier($("#searchInput")); 
// можно, кстати, забайндить как угодно:
// ко всем input'ам на странице:
// bindSearchBeautifier($(":input")); 
// ко разным input'ам на странице:
// bindSearchBeautifier($("#input1, #input2")); 
// ко разным input'ам с одинаковым классом:
// bindSearchBeautifier($(".searchInput"));

<input type="text" id="searchInput" />

браузер кол-во       %   
 
MSIE 6      2,406 55.6   
Netscape 5    931 21.5   
Opera         872 20.2   
MSIE 5         69  1.6   
другие         46  1.1

[code]
браузер   кол-во    %   
 
MSIE 6     1,877 36.6   
Netscape   1,179 23.0   
Opera      1,084 21.1   
MSIE 7       550 10.7   
не определён 349 6.8   
другие        61 1.2   
MSIE 5        33 0.6

div {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: bottom;

    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;

<script language="JavaScript">
    var orderDoc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0");
    orderDoc.load("order.xml");
    var items = orderDoc.selectNodes("/Order/Item");
</script>

M>>Гы. Всем лежать-бояться (Сорри, что влезаю, но все же )

M>>$("#searchbar-box > *").append("<input class=\"search-go-button\">");
M>>

M>>Я так понимаю, xul:toolbarbutton тоже где-то описывается. Код в студию!

/*
 * yui-ext
 * Copyright(c) 2006, Jack Slocum.
 */

YAHOO.ext.EventManager.onDocumentReady(function(){
    var chooser, btn;
    
    var insertImage = function(data){
        YAHOO.ext.DomHelper.append('images', {
            tag: 'img', src: data.url, style:'margin:10px;visibility:hidden;'
        }, true).show(true);
        btn.getEl().focus();
    };
    
    var choose = function(btn){
        if(!chooser){
            chooser = new ImageChooser({
                url:'get-images.php',
                width:515, 
                height:400
            });
        }
        chooser.show(btn.getEl(), insertImage);
    };
    
    btn = new YAHOO.ext.Button('buttons', {
        text: "Insert Image",
        handler: choose
    });
});

<someContainer>
    <element>Blah0</element>
    <element>Blah1</element>
    <element>Blah2</element>
    <element>Blah3</element>
</someContainer>

<someMap>
    <element key="1">Blah0</element>
    <element key="2">Blah1</element>
    <element key="3">Blah2</element>
    <element key="4">Blah3</element>
</someMap>