Scriptaculous 1.8 is in beta and offers several remarkable new features:

• Complete rewrite of Ajax.InPlaceEditor and Ajax.InPlaceCollectionEditor
• Full CSS inheritance in Effect.Morph
• New core effect: Effect.Tween
• Sound: play mp3 files for sound effects; uses native playback on IE and available plugins

We’ll be looking at all of these in more depth soon.

• Ajax24′s Drop Tabs. A Creative Take on The Tab Box for Scriptaculous
• Edit In Place with Tiny MCE, Prototype & Scriptaculous
• Image Cropper, Smooth Ajax Based Image Cropping for Prototype
• Prototype 1.6 & Scriptaculous 1.8 Have Landed
• Prototype UI: A consolidated library of Prototype / Scriptaculous widgets
• Prototype Transparent Message
• Prototype Carousel
• Prototype Window Class
• EXT JS
• The sound of music is silence and sometimes a click