New tools for web design and development: June 2012

This month has a feeling of richness and texture, with earthy notes coming through and some strong fruity aromas. That's right, it's a vintage. In a month when Google teamed up with Lego to rebuild Australasia one block at a time, the apps shown here could only ever be a shortlist. And buildwithchrome.com didn't make it, by the way.

The clearest indication that web has begun to simmer creatively is that the output this month has been so varied: we cover time and motion with ProjectFlow, gestural simplicity with QuoJS, and video-HTML mashups courtesy of Mozilla. It's like someone took a big wooden spoon and stirred things up. Which is good.

It's also a plus that whosoever did the stirring had a wry smile on their face as they did so. Everything has a touch of pleasure to it: even reFiddle, a regex tool, feels light-hearted. It's about time things in the world took a turn for the better, and it makes sense that the upturn should begin online. And best of all, none of our choices will cost you a red cent.

1. ProjectFlow

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