French Poltics and AJAX ?

The french always make you gasp. The things they do are often incomprehensible, and their system manages to confound even the keenest observers. So Ségolène Royal become the official candidate for the Parti Socialiste, fine. Then they go and throw at tart at her face.(a verb for this action exists). Ok fine, he was Belgian, but so what? This guy started with Gates, and has already done a wide variety from Jean-Luc Godard to Nicolas Sarkozy.

OK, now lets examine the PS situation. They are as the name suggest France's main Left wing party, and with the lady in question getting the nod over her seemingly chauvinistic colleagues, it seems very likely that they will come to power. The 'right' wing Chirac's UMP, itself has pretty left wing like policies, to I expect the 'moderate' left to be more lefter than normal. Anyway, what surprises me is that, unlike what we've seen with the left in many parts of the world, these guys are really chic and swanky. All we need to do is look at their new Beta Site under development. It's got AJAX, draggable bars, streaming video, everything! Its really great.

Now if only, the BJP or the congress took a leaf out of these guys' books. I guess it will come, when Indian politicians can no longer ignore the sheer number of people who will be online in a few years time. Till then, for budding web-designers in India, looking for work, it's slimy college fests and non-paying poster jobs that await!