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This is big. Prototype 1.6 is a major upgrade, and the first RC has been released. There is a large number of updates and my pet favourites are:

• The event system has been cleaned up. It now works the way you would expect, with "this" doing the right thing
• You can observe and fire custom events on the DOM (a la Dojo)
• Thanks to the custom events, DOMContentLoaded is normalized across browsers via: document.observe("contentloaded", function() { … })
• AOP-lite: Simple interception and function currying
• Function delay and defer: (function() { $("form").fire("requestSent") }).defer();
• Ajax.Response: Now you can more easily work with JSON
• DOM Builder
• Template API: "#{last}, #{first}".interpolate({ first: "Andrew", last: "Dupont" })
• Improved support for JavaScript 1.6 and WHATWG 1.0 standards

Be sure to take a detailed look at this puppy.

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Texty is a dead simple but useful new internet service that you can use to quickly create and edit content on a web page with zero HTML or programming skills.

Go to the site, start typing text in a WYSIWYG editor, format it and add images. Click a button and get an embed code. Your text will appear in whatever website you add the code to. And if you want to make changes, go back to Texty and edit it. The changes will flow to whatever sites you’ve embedded it on. You can also add comment functionality to a piece of text, and create a RSS feed.

There are lots of great and easy to use content management systems on the web already. Blogging software is just one example. But if someone is working on a web page outside of something like a blog and wants to add a bit of text and graphics, this is a good solution. See our coverage of JS-Kit which has similar tools. I was surprised at how many people are looking for something exactly like this.

I’ve embedded a bit of text and an image below. Everything below this paragraph, including the image, is actually embedded from Texty.

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Here is a pretty simple calendar popup javascript to select a date for a form filed.

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How is it that the very foundation of the web, written text, has taken a strategic back seat to design? Bronwyn Jones argues that great web design is not possible without the design of words.

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A few weeks ago we published a list of 34 places to get design inspiration online and off and it proved to be one of our most popular articles to date. So today we journey back out to the world of design inspiration to bring you many, many more places to get inspiration – 60 to be precise.

I have literally been combing the web and have unearthed so many great sites and places that I’d never seen. From advertising to architecture, graphics to web, art to design, there’s a bit of everything. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed finding them and that they inspire some of the great works of tomorrow!

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It’s that time again folks. I have been itching to make some more Photoshop brushes, so here’s a set to digest. I took a trip to the store, got a bouquet of flowers with a nice variety (I can’t grow flowers to save my life), whipped out my Nikon D-80, and went to town + [...]

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Here is anther very complete font download site. enjoy.
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Here is a great resource for icons… search and you shall find.

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