Version 0.6 of the Blueprint CSS framework has been released with several dramatic improvements.

• A much more sensible directory structure.
• A new plugin system.
• Lots of functionality extracted into plugins, keeping the core files sweet and nimble.
• New test suite for proper browser compatibility testing.
• We’re back to using em units for all vertical sizing, although with a much better implementation than what we had in 0.4.
• New ruby scripts for compressing and validating the CSS.
• Proper styling of forms.
• Tons and tons of bugfixes.

For more information visit the Blueprint site.

Dojo has a acquired a Grid Widget for the 0.9 release and it was definitely worth the wait. The existing TurboAjax Grid widget has been added to the dijits lineup.

• General Features
  • Browser support matching Dojo 1.0: IE6/7, Firefox 2/3, and Safari 3 on Windows, Safari 3 and Firefox 2/3 on Mac, and Firefox 2/3 on Linux. Opera support will follow.
  • Subgrids, nested grids, and tree grids
  • In-place editing
  • Context menus and tooltips specific to a particular row or column
  • Data sorting through sort functions or custom sort filter functions
  • Cell formatters for separation of data from layout
  • Documentation and unit tests
• Dijit Features
  • Standard Dijit with markup and declarative instantiation
  • Data binding between data columns and grid columns, and dojo.data provider support
  • il8n and a11y
  • Grid events for easy manipulation and event handling for event-driven application development
  • Keyboard support, including cell selection
  • Theme infrastructure with structured CSS in dijit.css and tundra.css
• Rows, Columns, formatting, and more
  • Virtual scrolling: 100,000+ rows without performance lags
  • User sizable columns
  • Complex rows of various widths and heights, just like HTML tables
  • Cells, rows, and columns may be patterned based on pattern or state
  • Fixed position columns
  • Column dimensions specified in a variety of CSS units, not just pixels
  • dojo.connect calls to selectively show/hide portions of rows
  • Optional auto-sizing to fill content or a container node
  • Auto-adjust dimensions in response to user-controlled font-size adjustments
  • Variable row height
  • Selection by row and multirows
  • Column layout may be changed on the fly by users and code
  • Resizing of the grid on the fly by users and code

Dijit has long been lacking a powerful and robust table widget. This release fills one of the largest remaining gaps in the dojo feature set.

For More information you can read the SitePen release here:
http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/09/16/the-dojo-grid/

The new jQuery UI will be landing on Sunday, September 16th. This will provide a powerful new set of widget tools to the jQuery toolkit.

What to Expect:

• Draggables
• Droppables
• Resizables
• Shadows
• Sliders
• Sortables
• Tabs
• Accordions
• Selectables
• Trees
• Modals

Coverage and tutorials of the new features will be published next week. In the meantime, check out the latest jQuery 1.2

The JQuery Team just realesed JQuery 1.2.  A major new revision to the JQuery toolkit.  While there are many major revisions to the software.  Some features have been removed, many others added or updated.

Some Key revisions include improvements to the ability to use custom namespaces & queueing for animations.

Other New Features:

• Ajax
  • Partial .load()
  • Cross-Domain getScript
  • JSONP
  • .serialize() Overhaul
  • Disable Caching
• Effects
  • .stop()
  • %/em Animations
  • Color Animations
  • Relative Animations
  • Queue Control
  •  :animated
  • step: Function
• Events
  • Namespaced Events
  • .triggerHandler()
• Internals
  • Documentation Move
  • Expando Management

Find out more at jQuery.com

GWT 1.4 was released today. This is the first non-beta release of the software and includes numerous improvements to improve the usability of the code.

New Features:

• Rich Text Area, Improved Split Panels, Suggest Box & Buttons
• Image Bundle to automatically consolidate image downloads
• Servlet independence to allow any Java back-end infrastructure
• Benchmarking system based on J-Unit
• GWT can be added to HTML with simple <script> tag
• Synchronous loading of external files
• Ability to pull files across multiple domains
• RPC whitelists automatically generated

You can download the new release at:
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html

More info on the release can be found here:
http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2007/08/gwt-14-release-and-out-of-beta.html