We've seen the community do a lot with <canvas> over the past few months, and every so often it's fun to see the good ol' <div> approach to graphics and animation.

Tavs Dokkedahl gives us a good one of those with his JavaScript Graph Plotting Tool:

By now, most developers have (or should have) come to realize how important it is to build unobtrusive JavaScript code. Apart from ensuring a better user experience, today's tools and libraries make it extremely easier to embrace this practice.

Mikael Bergkvist has created Widgetplus, a gadget platform. He told us about it.

XML Runtime

The structure of an application is defined in XML.

James Donaghue has released Peppy, the first release of his CSS 3 compliant selector engine that runs independent of one particular library (and can thus be used with any of them).

He has some bold claims on speed:

Noupe is doing a good job cataloging content, such as their post on great JavaScript CSS menu libraries which features:

Back in March, we posted about Ian Smith's newest project, TaffyDB, the lightweight JavaScript library that acts as thin data layer inside Web 2.0 and Ajax applications.

Ian contacted us to let us know about a new tutorial that he posted which provides step-by-step instructions on how to best implement TaffyDB:

Stoyan Stefanov of Yahoo! has published a nice article on JavaScript's class-less objects.

This is published on JavaRanch, so it talks to the Java community, and uses that lense to explain the differences.

He delves into:

Blackbird, G. Scott Olson's JavaScript logging library, truly has a catchy slogan. The slogan "Say hello to Blackbird and 'goodbye' to alert()" definitely captures what the Blackbird library aims to do; make logging messages in JavaScript extremely easy. And setup is very easy. By incorporating the following lines of code, you've now added the ability to set checkpoints which will display specific data you're interested in:

An interesting top 12 list has been published, on using Javascript to fix 12 common browser headaches:

Ars Technica has a new columnist, John Resig. His first piece is on Extreme JavaScript Performance which has started to come to us in abundance recently!

His article focuses on the latest updates to the fish, SquirrelFish Extreme: