a4j provides a "focus" attribute which gives an input component focus after the ajax request, and has the side effect of scrolling the component into view.
Sometimes you just want to ensure that a component is visible after the ajax update, but setting focus to a non-input component does nothing.
It would be nice to have another attribute where one could specify an arbitrary client id to be made visible after ajax. This would probably require a companion attribute that indicted how the view should be scrolled, for example, "top of element at top of viewport".
This scrolling into view is essential in something like a tree component where the ajax request may add a new node and this node is off the bottom of the screen, and the user has no idea it is even there.
