Smart Lists, a light-weight (8KB) Prototype-script.aculo.us framework extension, converts HTML lists into categorized, paginated lists. And, It does not require a database or server-side script.

It can be applied to existing lists with very little effort, providing a significant bump in usability.

Prototype Liste Extension

Smart List is easily configurable with different hide/show effects for items and changing pages, speed of the effects and number of the items for paging.

Besides supporting all the major modern browsers, it degrades gracefully for unsupported browsers.