Blocks and filters potential for the ultimate menu.

Navigation systems are just lists of links right? Views is designed to create lists automatically and sort them with filters. That puts the abilities of other menu systems available to complete shame. The thing is, in order to take advantage of filters you need to load a new page(according to my very limited understanding of this module, im new.) and that means you can't update blocks with filters(correct?).

What is necessary to enable filters to be applied to list views in blocks so that you can create a dynamic navigation system that allows users to choose how to sort the links with category options or alphabetical.

Views is on the edge of being the ultimate solution to drupal menus. How possible is it to push it over?

The only patchwork solution that I can come up with to using views as complex navigation is by combining several predefined views blocks with tabs, each with an appropriate filter. However, that would be pretty unwieldly if you had many items to sort alphabetically requiring you to break them up in to letter groups like A-C, D-F, etc or if you have many categories.

So I guess I'm just asking for an assessment of how possible this is.

Thanks for reading.