Here is some news from the first half of Febraury that I found interesting:

Touch Events (JavaScript for Touchscreen Devices)

PPK has done a lot of research on touch events, and posted a compatibility table and his thoughts:

The Touch Action
Persistent Touch Event Objects

New MooTools Released

A new version (1.2.4.4) of the MooTools JavaScript framework has been released.

MooTools 1.2.4.4

Additionally, developers describe how to use MooTools as a General Purpose Application Framework.

IE 6 Comic Strip

And this was just awesome.

The Life and Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer 6