Just quickly stumbled upon this tool that allows you to use textareas within your forms, and dynamically change them into content editors ala word, etc.

Check it out – NicEdit.

Yes, IE6 was amazing, in 2001 the owners of end6.org proclaim, and yes – they are totally right.  They even provide a javascript that you can embed in your page, so that whenever a visitor with IE6 visits your page, the following warning sign appears:

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Most AJAX type rating widgets use star and half-star images as default with mouse over events on each star. Rabid Ratings is a new MooTools ratings system which allows users to rate virtually anything with cute hearts icons. Rabid Ratings uses a reverse alpha-transparent PNG as a background image to achieve infinitely complex precision and robust visual effects with a very low overhead. You can customize your own PNG image and modifying the ratings.css stylesheet as well. The integrate is easy but it also need a mySQL database to store the data of votes and score.
http://widgets.rabidlabs.net/ratings/v1.2/

Prototype 1.6.0.2 just released for several days, a Prototype user kangax has created a full reference Prototype cheat sheet in coordination with the recent 1.6.0.2 version that categorizes the full Prototype API. It marks red for deprecated items, modules are sorted in logical order and no parentheses or arguments specified. Download the Prototype cheat sheet pdf file here and enjoy.

jCarousel is a jQuery Javascript library plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth. You can navigate images and HTML content in a carousel style widget. jCarousel also allow you to load dynamic content from external source such as Flickr API and PHP script. Moreover, it supports some amazing special effects suck as thickbox and animation effect. It’s compatible well with major decent browsers like Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera and Konqueror. Besides the official examples, you can take a look the site that integrating with the Javascript component as well.