Dmitry Baranovskiy and team have released another version of Raphaël, an excellent drawing and animation library backed by SVG (VML on Internet Explorer). New features in Raphaël 1.5 include custom attributes and keyframes. Keyframes can be defined similar to CSS3 Animations:
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el.animate({
    “20%”: {cy: 200, easing: “>”},
    “40%”: {cy: 100},
    “60%”: {cy: [...]

I don’t usually post acquisition news on here, but I just wanted to congratulate 280 North, who we’ve covered on here many times and are fellow members of the Ajax community. 280 North produces the awesome Cappuccino language/framework, including the 280 Slides presentation web application. Techcrunch is reporting that Motorola has bought 280 North. From [...]

Version 2 of HTML5Rocks is hot off the presses!

We think HTML5 will make your work more engaging and create a faster, more responsive experience for your users, so we’re happy to add today a slew of new content to html5rocks.com.
If you want to not only get up to speed, but understand the browser differences and techniques [...]

There’s an old saying: “It took me ten years to be an overnight success.” We’ve been waiting for web fonts for at least a decade, and 2010 will finally be the year that web fonts go mainstream.
This is in no small part to the work both Typekit and Google have been doing. Today they [...]

The 280 North crew just released NativeHost, an open source component that takes your Cappuccino applications and makes them desktop apps, without you having to write a line of code:

Again, we feel that the ultimate distribution platform is the web, and that the desktop is almost a transitional necessity today. So with that in mind, [...]

Over in SVG Web land we’ve pushed out a new release, code named Dracolisk:

A Dracolisk is a truly fearsome creature, able to turn an enemy into stone with merely the gaze of the basilisk coupled with the acidic breath of a black dragon, while SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG [...]

We have been long term fans of Román and the fantastic demos and samples that he puts together, usually involving CSS goodness. We messed up the other week though when we linked to his work on a scrolling coke can. I do these postings as a labor of love, and since Ajaxian isn’t my day [...]

A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc).
Well, they may not have been in a pub…. but [...]

SVG-Edit is a nifty open source editing web app that uses SVG and doesn’t need a server-side:

The SVG-Edit team recently announced SVG-Edit 2.4, code named Arbelos. New features include:
- Raster Images
- Group/Ungroup
- Zoom
- Layers
- Curved Paths
- UI Localization
- Wireframe Mode
- Change Background
- Draggable Dialogs
- Resizable UI (SVG icons)
- Convert Shapes to Path
Try out the demo [...]

The Ample SDK, a unique GUI toolkit working to create a cross-browser abstraction backed by open standards, has gone open source! With the new 0.8.9 release the GUI framework is now an open-source project licensed under GPL/MIT and hosted on GitHub.
More about the Ample SDK:
The Ample SDK makes it easy to create interactive vector graphics [...]