Zepto
Thomas Fuchs is at it again. His new project, Zepto, is a lightweight framework for developing applications for mobile WebKit. It’s super-minimal (~2k), which is critically important in mobile browsers, given spotty connectivity and unpredictable caching behavior. The syntax cribs pretty heavily from jQuery (which is a little funny given its author’s resumé), so it [...]

Geddy
Geddy is a new web framework for Node.js that aims to be a more full-featured than Express. Like Express, Geddy has DSL for routing and support for templates and partials. Where Geddy goes further, is in implementing an ORM (inspired by the Datamapper and SQLAlchemy APIs) and a full system of Rails-style code generators. Geddy [...]

jQuery Mobile
Without a doubt the biggest news of the week has to be the announcement of jQuery Mobile. While the project hasn’t been particularly secret until now, this is the first official announcement of the project, and the first concrete information about what kinds of capabilities the framework will offer and what devices will be [...]

Dojo 1.5 Released
Dojo 1.5 is out, and there’s a heck of a lot of new stuff in this release. In addition to improvements to the core codebase, there are scads of extremely useful feature additions. For instance, Dojo now shows how forward-looking it is with its excellent cross-browser support for HTML5 & CSS3 features, such [...]

Are people taking summer vacations out there, or what? It’s been a bit of a slow news week on the Javascript front, but don’t worry, we’ve got plenty of great stuff to keep you busy.
Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete
The always prolific Nicholas Zakas has a great post up on his blog titled Data URIs [...]

Another week is on its way out, so it’s time to look back at some of the cool stuff you folks have been working on in the week that was.
Ext JS is now Sencha
Ext JS, the company behind the Ext JS Javascript libraries and tools, has changed its name to Sencha. To go along with [...]