Calender Eightysix is the successor of the popular Vista-like Ajax Calendar. Being an unobtrusive developer friendly calendar and datepicker, this lightweight customizable script is offering a better user experience for date related functionalities. Calender Eightysix is built from scratch using pure JavaScript, making use of the MooTools framework.

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Flabell released CheckBox Component, a minimalist checkbox (weights only 45kb) easy to integrate in any AS3 Flash project. It can be used by drag and drop and the design can be changed by altering it’s movie clips directly in the FLA.

Features include:

• Set the initial state
• Enabled/Disabled states
• Label text/position
• Resizeable
• Customizable colors

If you are looking for a way to take control of your CSS, then eCSStender is a choice to consider. It’s time to say hello to lean and mean CSS and forget about the browser-specific properties and hacks cluttering your files.

The following extensions are currently available or are in development:

• CSS3 Selectors
• @font-face support
• CSS rotation (currently bundled with eCSStender as an example)
• CSS3 border-radius (currently bundled with eCSStender as an example)
• CSS3 Columns

Extensions built with eCSStender greatly simplify the design process because you can author modern CSS using advanced selectors, properties such as border-radius, or custom font faces and rest assured that your design will work… even in IE6.

Flabell’s Free Content Scroller is an easy drag and drop scrollbar component with support for both vertical and horizontal scrolling. This easy to use flash component works by passing the content (text or not), a mask (the size of the mask is the display area), the offset and the direction.

General details:

• Opens with: Flash CS3+
• Resolution: Resizeable
• Published size: 25kb
• ActionScript version: AS3

This component also supports scrolling using the mouse wheel.

If you are looking for a way to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widgets than Raphaël is definitely a choice to consider. This simple to use JavaScript library uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics meaning that every graphical object that you create is also a DOM object. Therefore, you can attach JavaScript handlers or modify them later.

Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy.

CSScaffold is a new type of CSS, built with PHP, that changes the way you write and manage your CSS. It speeds up your development time by doing the hard work for you. Scaffold is different to other CSS frameworks, like Blueprint and 960.gs, but it’s power lies in it’s ability to extend the CSS language. It offers you the possibility to generate the CSS found in other CSS frameworks dynamically, like grid classes to quickly build layouts. The framework uses .htaccess files to automatically pass any CSS file through Scaffold first for processing and caching. You just have to drop the files onto your server (keep the framework in your CSS directory) and you’re ready to go with the CSS you’ve already written.

Features include:

• Written like CSS (it is not necessary to learn a new language to use it)
• Usage of constants within the CSS document
• Use mixins like in SASS and Compass
• Nest selectors to tidy up your code
• Optimize, compress and gzip
• Generate test suites for typography, layouts and form styles
• Plugin architecture that lets you extend the language the way you want

xCSS is an open source lightweight framework that bases on CSS to empower a straight forward and object-oriented workflow when developing complex styles cascades. This framework is very useful to cut out development time by: having an intuitive overview of the overall CSS structure, using variables, re-using style existing cascades, nesting selector declarations, extending objects and many other handy features. xCSS seemly integrated into any existing workflow. An advantage is that the CSS overhead is getting reduced while your (X)HTML attributes remain semantic.

xCSS compiles on the fly (your natural CSS workflow remains the same) and it easily configurable (you can setup the file hierarchy and miscellaneous output settings in one single xCSS config file).

To celebrate the Redesign of the Envato Marketplaces, GraphicRiver is sharing a completely free web icon set that was designed by the icon designers from Turbomilk. All you need is a link back to the free icon set page (http://graphicriver.net/free-icons) and you can use the icons in anything from personal to commercial items for sale on ThemeForest and FlashDen. Go wild!

FatCow Web Hosting, a leading provider of web hosting, domain registration and related marketing services, is sharing 1000 free beautifully designed web icons for download. The icon set includes both the 16px and the 32px versions of the icons. The images are available in PNG format with transparent backgrounds.