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

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, such as:
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  1.  
  2. var note = new Element(’div’, {
  3.         ‘id’: ‘note’,
  4.         ‘class’: ‘note’,
  5.         ’styles’: {
  6.                 ‘left’: 15,
  7.                 ‘top’: 15
  8.         },
  9.         ‘events’: {
  10.                 ‘click’: noteConfirm,
  11.                 ‘mouseover’: noteShowMore
  12.         }
  13. });
  14.  
• 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);

For more information check out:

• Documentation
• Download
• Demos
• What’s New

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Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/mootools-11-released