I checked in some changes over the past few days to support both horizontal menus (aka MenuBar) and vertical menus statically appearing on a page, rather than popping up. i.e., menus that are always visible. Give it a whirl. For now, see the test_Menu.html test file for a demo. (Eventually we'll get the demos into the new doc.)

Dev.Opera recently asked us (SitePen) to write an article about Dojo: Introducing the Dojo Toolkit. The article provides an in-depth look at Dojo Core. Opera is also making a small cash contribution to the Dojo Foundation in recognition of our efforts for writing a great article for their developer community.

A week or two ago I checked in a bunch of updates to ContentPane. The goal was to make "hidden" initialization work better, i.e., if a TabContainer had a ContentPane with some markup, including some widgets like Grid or Editor that won't initialize correctly when hidden. The original plan was to use visibility:hidden rather than display:none, but that proved problematic on IE.

A few months ago I started hanging out in #dojo and noticed that there were a lot of common questions. With some input from phiggins, I compiled a top-10 collection of the most frequently stumbled-upon concepts in The Dojo Toolkit. You'll probably never see this on the Late Show but here's number 10:

10. #dojo

Dojo has a very helpful community (http://dojotoolkit.org/community) with some very good resources for those getting started and also for those who have been using dojo for a while. Some very useful "go to" websites are:

• http://dojotoolkit.org/

I am proud to announce what is now officially the coolest-numbered-dot-release in Dojo history: The Dojo Toolkit 1.2.3 Both 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 were released silently and were relatively short-lived. 1.2.3 is expected to be the last release of the 1.2 branch, and is very stable. This release includes several critical fixes to ContentPane, and many low-risk changes to the 1.2 release. It should be a 100% safe migration for 1.2 users, and offers better support for 1.1 users wishing to migrate.