Konfabulator (7)

1 Name: Anonymous 04/12/12(Sun)08:59 ID:Heaven [Del]

www.konfabulator.com

now with windows version! it kicks ass

too bad it's $25 ;_;

right now i'm running with the default clock and the miniature weather / battery / wireless widgets on "floating" mode. it's ... so beautiful I want to register but it's pretty expensive for a little bit of prettification.

2 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E 04/12/12(Sun)10:02 ID:Heaven [Del]

Now that looks useful.

Bad name though. Makes it sound like something right out of KDE.

3 Name: CYB3R H4XX0R G33K 04/12/13(Mon)05:02 ID:Heaven [Del]

holy crap that's ugly

4 Name: CYB3R H4XX0R G33K 04/12/15(Wed)13:23 ID:uzKmK4A4 [Del]

Move over OS X Tiger's Dashboard. Some bastard already made a goddamn clone.

5 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 04/12/15(Wed)19:38 ID:DfGnGDeA [Del]

Uh... Actually, Konfabulator was around before Dashboard; in fact, when Dashboard was announced, there was a furor by fans of Konfabulator similar to the whole Sherlock/Watson debacle. There are a bit too many similarities (they both use JavaScript as a backend (ugh, why JavaScript?) and have superfluous user interfaces), but really, they're both just bloated extensions of Desk Accessories introduced back in Mac OS 6 (I think).
http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator

6 Name: hk0!0khonVgaHI 04/12/15(Wed)22:24 ID:CpP8HyQG [Del]

>>5
What's wrong with javascript?

7 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 04/12/17(Fri)02:55 ID:Mri+Hinq [Del]

Oh, nothing really, I suppose. It's just more commonly seen only on web pages. Though, upon researching Dashboard a bit more, I'm finding that Dashboard "widgets" are actually HTML pages laid out by CSS and controlled by JavaScript and such, using WebCore (the OS-wide HTML framework), so I guess it makes sense.

I'm just hoping that Apple doesn't fuck up and make it possible to run Dashboard code from normal web pages in Safari. If I wanted to suddenly find my hard drive erased just because I visited a certain web page, I'd use Windows and IE...

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