[OSCOM] Ajax and CMS

Howdy all.  This is primarily an email to the developers of the  
various OSCOM CMS projects, but if others have a strong opinion,  
chime in.

Most of us have read about Ajax:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

First, do any of you plan to add Ajax capabilities in your CMS  
products during the next product cycle?

Second, I think the Rails approach seems to center on having the  
server provide an abstraction layer so that the JavaScript stuff is  
auto-generated and injected into the page.  Presumably the idea is  
that web application developers should be shielded from browser  
technologies.

Thus a second question: how many of you view the browser side (JS,  
CSS, etc.) as fundamental skills for development in your project?   
Are most of you (the ones creating CMS products) skilled at these  
technologies?

--Paul