Released: MooTools 1.2.3

I\’m excited to tell you that MooTools 1.2.3 has been released today! It\’s mainly bug fixes and updates. One major change is compatibility with other frameworks. Like the MooTools-Dev team, I do not advise using more than one framework. But if you have to.. then you have to. See below for a list of changes, straight from the cows mouth!

Core

• Element: MooTools compatibility mode: the $ function is only defined if no pre-existing $ function is found. If an existing $ function is found, you can use document.id()
• Element: changed internal instances of $ to document.id
• Core: fix for server-side MS JScript 5.x; makes MooTools more friendly for server side programming
• Class: Class doesn’t require Browser, removed from scripts.json
• Element: Fixes for set/get Property
• Element.Dimensions: fix for webkit body.scrollTop inconsistency, getBoundingClientRect used whenever possible (not just for Trident), renaming element.position to element.setPosition; adding docs for the method; alias is included in-line for compatibility
• Hash: Hash extend no longer uses the window if no arguments supplied
• Request: clearing Request readystate before calling success or failure;
• Selectors: Added :enabled pseudoselector, was in the Docs but not implemented.
• Docs: Fixed docs headers for first-child, last-child, and only-child.
• Internal: UnitTester test suite is now a git submodule
• Numerous small fixes, speed improvements, documentation tweaks, etc.

More

• Per the change in -core, $ is no longer used (uses document.id instead)
• Element.Measure: trying cssText solution for Element.expose (again).
• Element.Forms: swapping feature detection for browser support per
• Date: Massive refactoring of Date.js and Date.Extras.js
• Drag.Move: Fixing drag with grid issues
• IframeShim: altering zindex assignment in IframeShim to better ensure that it’s always underneath the shimmed element, updating Iframeshim’s empty document creation; fixes https issues in IE6
• FormValidator: reworking formvalidator scroll-to logic to be a little more efficient
• OverText: preventing overtext from focusing on inputs except when they are interacted with (so OverText.update() does not focus an input);now stops polling when elements are hidden (when polling is enabled)
• Fx.Scroll: adding scrollIntoView method – scrolls an element so that it is completely visible; if below the view, scrolls down until it is at the bottom of the screen, if above, scrolls up until it is at the top.
• JSONP: was calling (the deprecated) this.request instead of this.send during retries
• URI: Adding set(‘data’, obj) to set
• Assets: adding error callback for Assets.images
• Tips: removing dependency for Element.Measure for Tips; updating CSS class name in OverText
• Numerous small fixes, speed improvements, documentation tweaks, etc.

Great job MooTools-Dev team!