Apologies for the aside, but another one of this fellow's projects, jquery.fracs, is pretty impressive: <a href="https://github.com/lrsjng/jQuery.fracs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lrsjng/jQuery.fracs</a>
Link to source and some screenshots, since the site is quite slow right now: <a href="https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai</a>
This is quite nice, however, if you are wanting to serve static content I no longer believe Apache the proper tool for the job. Use cherokee, lighttpd or nginx, they are all faster and have decent file interfaces.