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Stumbled into this article which presents alternative Mootools code for styling scrollbars.

Personally though I prefer jScrollPane, but that’s because I’m a JQuery user.

I have long shunned ASP.Net for the ugly and ancient HTML code that it uses for rendering controls. Enter the CSS Friendly Control Adapters kit (CFCA?) for ASP.Net 2.0, which “… provides pre-built control adapters that you can easily use to generate CSS-friendly markup from some of the more commonly used ASP.NET controls …”

Started late 2006 as a Microsoft project, it was released *gasp* open-source and required a lot of extra steps to incorporate into a project. Frustrated by this, an independent developer, Brian DeMarzo, repackaged the code so that it compiled into a single DLL, thus the present form of CFCA.

Although the website pretty much lacks updates, the project is still alive, with the latest release dated Jan 25.

You may download the code here.

jQuery happens to be my favorite JavaScript framework, so I was very happy when Noupe came up with a list of 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples. The article has “Part 1″ attached to it so expect to see more. The list ranges from useful to awesome to just cool, such as the following:

• Date Picker - a flexible unobtrusive calendar component for jQuery
• Style Switcher - allows your visitors to choose which stylesheet they would like to view your site with. It uses cookies so that when they return to the site or visit a different page they still get their chosen stylesheet
• Table Sorter - turns your standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes
• Form Validation
• Image Galleries
• and more …

I personally am not a big fan of frameworks, but if you work with a team enforcing frameworks is a good way of getting things done consistently and getting everyone up to par when it comes to CSS standards. This article highlights the pros and cons of using frameworks, and is a good reference for the top CSS frameworks available on the net.

YUI 2.4.0 has finally been released and boy do they have a huge list of new features, which include the following:

• Selector Utility
• Charts Control
• Get Utility
• Profiler
• JSON Utility

As well as the following new widgets:

• Button
• Calendar
• Drag & Drop
• Rich Text Editor

Head over to the download page.

Version 0.5 of the Blueprint CSS Framework has just been released. It now allows up to 24 columns in the grid among and reverts to using PX for vertical spacing as opposed to EM, among other things. It’s supposed to be “experimental” so keep your eyes peeled for version 0.6.