{"id":83,"date":"2004-07-01T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T23:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:45:30","slug":"dashboard-in-mac-os-x-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/dashboard-in-mac-os-x-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/graphics\/dbwidgets.png\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4\" \/>When I first heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/tiger\/dashboard.html\">Dashboard<\/a> in upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/tiger\/\">Tiger Mac OS X<\/a>, my initial thought was meh, not for me but I was wrong.  It&#8217;s amazing that any web designers \/ developers can easily develop a widget using just XHTML \/ CSS for interface.  No Javascript or XML bullshits.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the source code of <a href=\"..\/files\/stickies\/Stickies.html\">Stickies widget<\/a> for an example of how it&#8217;s done.  Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"..\/files\/stickies.zip\">compressed version<\/a> of the whole things including plists.  (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erikveland.com\/arkiv\/000743.php#000743\">Erik Veland<\/a> for posting them)<\/p>\n<p>I think comparing Dashboard to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konfabulator.com\/\">Konfabulator<\/a> is a little silly.  Read this well-written <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/06\/dashboard_vs_konfabulator\">article<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.com\/\">Daring Fireball<\/a>.  He explained why better than anyone can.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a developer looking to build some decent, full-featured widgets such as Dictionary, etc., send me an email!  I&#8217;m itching to contribute some graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard of Dashboard in upcoming Tiger Mac OS X, my initial thought was meh, not for me but I was wrong. It&#8217;s amazing that any web designers \/ developers can easily develop a widget using just XHTML \/ CSS for interface. No Javascript or XML bullshits. Look at the source code of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}