Apple's Dashboard Widgets
I wanted to blog briefly to clear up what the widgets actually are written in. They are Web pages, plain and simple (with extra features thrown in for added measure). Apple's own web site says "build your own widgets using the JavaScript language", but that's sort of misleading. The widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing.
In other words, each widget is just a web page, and so you have the full power of WebKit behind each one... CSS2, DOM2, JS, HTML, XMLHttpRequest, Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc. I'll have a lot more to say later on, but I thought it important to clear that up right up front, since a lot of people were asking me about it in email and such.
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is the end of the Konfabulator controversy... ;)
I wish. :D
But what is David Hyatt's connection to Dashboard? I thought he just worked on Safari?
is the end of the Konfabulator controversy... ;)
as well as konfabulator itself. they can't compete with apple and their CoreGraphics magic.
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