/*
These too should just be generalised AJAX helper functions.


*/

function submitFormWithoutButton(form, update) {     
  var args = { method: 'post', update: update, url: form.action, data: form };
  new Request.HTML(args).send();
  return false;
}

/* - old version (pre threaded comments)
function updateElement(link, update) {
  new Request.HTML( { method: 'get', url: link,
         update: $(update)}).send();     
  return false;
}
*/

function updateElement(link, update) {
    new Request.HTML( { 
        method: 'get',
        url: link, 
        evalScripts: true,
        update: $(update)}).send();
    return false;
}