Heat from the Dashboard
A new feature to be included in Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ is generating much criticism from Mac users, developers and bloggers for its uncanny resemblance to another, independently produced application.
Dashboard displays a number highly customisable mini-applications known as ‘widgets’, and, like Expos
10:25 am on 30 July 2002 :::
Rik Says:well, i was forced to go home and change into shorts and sandals, sopping wet i was. and we had an amazing thunderstorm which knocked out our power, which was nice, but not enough.
it’s a jungle in here.
10:42 am on 30 July 2002 :::
Stuart Says:I’m lazy when I’m lovin’, I’m lazy when I play
I’m lazy with my girlfriend a thousand times a day
I’m lazy when I’m speaking, I’m lazy when I walk
I’m lazy when I’m dancin’ and I’m lazy when I talk
This also applies to when it’s so bloody humid. God darn it.
1:55 pm on 30 June 2004 :::
natis Says:I don\’t know, maybe it\’s just me but I personally (and probably) won\’t use Dashboard. I disliked Konfabulator from the start. The problem with many ideas is that hardly any are original. As devil\’s advocate, granted, Rose and Clarke pushed out their product to market first but we really don\’t know what Apple was working on internally as we all know how secretive they tend to be.
With that said, I personally think it\’s an example of very MS-like behavior.
6:15 pm on 1 July 2004 :::
natis Says:Don\’t know if you saw the writing over at Daring Fireball. But you\’re Matt, I\’m sure you have.
–jj
7:17 pm on 1 July 2004 :::
natis Says:You had it hidden between stories.
5:57 pm on 3 July 2004 :::
michel Says:it seems apple didn\’t do any wrong
Konfabulator was not very original and not new (hek, I can think about others previons similar software, of course the most obvious for windows users is desktopX )
dashboard is in fact a use of Webkit.
they choose to use jscript, is some people think only one second why ?? because these kind of desktop accessories are tightly connected to the web and what is the most used language for web sites ? JSCRIPT
so is it a surprise ? no. it\’s common sense people.
(and jscript has common DOM functions to manipulate html pages , it should be very useful in a dashboard environnment, widgets _are_ html pages)
nothing new in konfabulator
nothing new in desktopX
nothing new in karambar
nothing new in gdesklet (a gnome imitation of karambar)
nothing new in nothing !
just re-invention, improvments, incremental progress. just the way of free(dom) technology .
and apple was perfectly nice with everyone. I don\’t think Alan Rose is perfectly honest.
in fact, people seems to believe apple is forbidden to add nice applications in their operating systems.
if the applications is open to developers (sdk), with STANDARDS PROTOCOLS (dashboard is completely W3C compliant ! : css, html, jscript ) to use and build on it , it\’s NEVER A PROBLEM !
in fact, dashboard is NOT an application, it\’s a new place to build NEW applications, it\’s just a \”webkit based\” platform.
konfabulator authors should create a webkit based tools to build widget. I would like that.