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MooTools version 1.1 is now available for download.

New Features

• Custom Events: A brand-new API to define custom events. The events ‘mouseenter’, and ‘mouseleave’, and ‘domready’ have been added as custom events.
• Enhanced Element(): New methods, and enhancements such as an improved way to add HTML.
• Element Filters: $(’myElement’).getChildren().filterByClass(’myClass’);
• Perfecting Ajax: Ajax::cancel allows running requests to be aborted, Ajax::evalScripts has been enhanced to include global eval and automated evaluation of responses with a JavaScript Content-Type.
• Hash.Cookie is an extended Hash Class that can automatically and manually save and load Hash values using JSON in a Cookie.
• Generics have been added for native prototypes, Element, and Elements.
• Advanced Garbage Collection: $(’content’).empty().setHTML(newText);

Freja is a specialized Javascript Framework for creating template-based, single-screen web applications.Freja is:

• Browser-centric and server-agnostic.
• Aimed toward delivering zero-latency user interface.
• Based on recognized standards and accepted best practices:
  • XML, XSL Templates and XPATH.
  • Separation of data, logic and presentation (MVC pattern)
• Open-Source and licensed under the CC-GNU LGPL.