July, 2011

Does anyone still test websites with IE6? If you are one of them IE6fixer is your tool! IE6fixer is a tool specifically designed to ease the pain of the ie6 css debugger.

This tool was concieved to decrease the monkey work when starting an ie6 css fix file. It applies a series of basic fixes that are known to conquer many problems and cause as little harm as possible. It is meant to get a good head-start by fixing roughly 40-60% of all your ie6 issues with just one click, outputting a rough css that can be placed in a separate section and can be used as a solid start to finish up the rest of your ie6 debugging work.

Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library.

• Routing: Requests to function-call mapping with support for clean and dynamic URLs.
• Templates: Fast and pythonic built-in template engine and support for mako, jinja2 and cheetah templates.
• Utilities: Convenient access to form data, file uploads, cookies, headers and other HTTP related metadata.
• Server: Built-in HTTP development server and support for paste, fapws3, bjoern, Google App Engine, cherrypy or any other WSGI capable HTTP server.

Smoke.js is a framework-agnostic styled alert system for javascript.

Smoke.js is lightweight and flexible, it uses css3 animation and it’s really easy to use. You can run it in the same way you’d use the js alert()…just put “smoke.” in front of it. Additionally, it’s super easy to change the look of your dialogs, Smoke.js includes a few sample themes.

newT.js is a pure JS templating engine with the power and flexibility you need to build powerful, responsive, asynchronous JavaScript applications.

newT.js syntax eliminates the tedious closing and balancing of HTML tags while providing a simple mechanism to create elements and define attributes. The source is tiny, 4.6KB, less than 2KB gzipped! newT.js provides flexible template options, and is designed to help build safer web apps, arming you in the fight against persistent XSS attacks.

Perkins is a CSS Framework thought to make the life of designers and developers a bit easier. It can help you to make wireframes quickly using the dynamic grid, based in Tyler Tate’s 1kb CSS Grid which is already included and can be configured in the perkins.config.less file, as well as many other options.

It uses the latest Web standards, also known as HTML5 and CSS3. To take more advantage and allow you not to repeat yourself, it is based in LESS.js, which means that you can forget some of the proprietary browser prefixes. Also, it carries a number of preloaded basic styles, mixins, helpers, transparent textures and a @font-face driven icon set.

Guiders are a user experience design pattern for introducing users to a web application.

Guiders.js uses dialog box that guides a user through your application. In this way you can easily improve the user experience in your website. Guiders.js requires jQuery library and its size is only 10 kb in uncompressed version.