Well crap. 1) I love the mad4milk guys (makers of moo.fx, moo.ajax, moo.dom, prototype.lite). 2) their new framework looks AWESOME. 3) as always, their libraries are SUPER TINY.

But damn, now I have to learn something new, and maybe rewrite a bunch of crap. This is the problem with javascript. Still, when Prototype + Scriptaculous is 100K, you gotta admire their ability to crank something out in under 20K that will get you nearly the same thing.

The Mad4Milk team (the minds that brought the world moo.fx) have unleashed a brand new, very impressive Javascript library out onto the web - MooTools.

mootools is a very compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework. Its unique design makes it extremely crossbrowser, easy to use, and a snap to extend with your own code. It comes with a choice of more than fifteen scripts, plugins and addons, including Effects (moo.fx) Ajax (moo.ajax), Dom Navigator (moo.dom), Drag and Drop, Sortable lists, cookies Manager and many more.

There aren’t any demos of the functionality quite yet (as of the date of this post), but you can download the first release of thise powerful little tool.

You can also check out what Jonathan Snook has to say about it, having already downloaded and worked with it a bit. He’s also created a simple tutorial on using the new library to create a drag-and-drop example.