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MooTools version 1.1 has been released “with crazy optimizations for speed, compatibility, flexibility, and all around greatness.”

New features include:

• 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);

To learn more you can check out:

• Documentation
• Download
• Demos
• What’s New

MiniAjax is a very nice collection of some great DHTML and Ajax scripts. It’s not a huge collection but the pieces available are bits that would be useful across a number of websites.

Just a few of the scripts include:

• Prototype Window which allows you to add a window in a HTML page.
• Ajax Star Rating Bar that allows users to rate things with no page refresh.
• A drop-in Ajax contact form that can be used in WordPress.
• Ajax powered IM system that sits right on your web site.
• Ajax domain search script

Like I said, a very nice collection with some helpful bits that you could use on various websites.

Ajaxian » Open source PHP-based Ajax image editor
Pete Frueh has released a PHP-based Ajax image editor. The editor was originally integrated into a content management system, that Pete had built for a client previously, but the new code structure should make it fairly easy to drop it in anywhere.

It doesn’t have documention at the time, but if you t currently has no documentation, but if you download the source code, there’s nt much to getting it running. The editor is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, so have at it!

You can check out a demo to see it in action.