The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be tough. The YUI team wants to help developers get up and running more quickly and announced yesterday the release of SimpleYUI; a basic and more streamlined version of the YUI [...]

Josh Duck has put together a fun and useful list of the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft but organized like a periodic table of elements:

When you click on one of the tags more information appears:

Who says chemistry can’t be fun?
[via Jackson Harper]

By Dion Almaer
webOS 2.0 SDK has just launched, and it has node.js built in (and more). The following is taken from my personal blog
At our last Palm Developer Day, Ben and I discussed future APIs for webOS including “JavaScript services” as a way to write code that runs on the other side of the device [...]

I stumbled on the Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat project recently:
Drumbeat gathers smart, creative people like you around big ideas, practical projects and local events that improve the open web.
It’s very well done combination of projects + community.
There’s a whole slew of cool projects already one here. A small sample:

Google Rich Snippet
Oli Studholme has an excellent new article on HTML5 Doctor on the different ways HTML5 can be extended with things like microformats, the link tag, and more. Why would you want to do this?
While HTML5 has a bunch of semantic elements, including new ones like <article> and <nav>, sometimes there just isn’t an element with the [...]

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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JAVASCRIPT:

el.animate({
    “20%”: {cy: 200, easing: “>”},
    “40%”: {cy: 100},
    “60%”: {cy: [...]

The SVG Web team has announced a new release. SVG Web is a drop in JavaScript library that makes it easy to display SVG graphics on Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 using Flash.
The new SVG Web release, like all of their releases, is named after especially silly D&D monsters. The new release is code [...]

Perfect for a Monday is a cool 3D model editor built using the Canvas tag and created by Jayesh Salvi:

Via Phil Franks comes an interesting HTML5/CSS3 site for There Studio, which is a kind of coworking space in London:

The site itself has a number of circles with information bouncing on the screen that respond to mouse clicks and moves.
Let’s crack th…

I stumbled across http://webkit.org/specs recently, which is basically a nifty listing of all custom extensions Apple/Webkit has made to web specs, written up as specs themselves so that other browsers can implement them:

Squirrelfish Bytecode
Timed Media Elements
CSS Effects
Extensions to CSS 3 Media Queries
The ‘pointer-events’ property

There were some on here that I had ever even heard of. [...]