Re: David Hyatt on Apple's Upcoming OS X 1.4 Mini-XUL Motor Dashboard

Gerald Bauer wrote:
>    Dashboard like Konfabulator or gDesklets or
> SuperKaramba is a mini XUL motor that lets you create
> eye candy for your desktop using markup and scripts.

    Not exactly. From David Hyatt's weblog, it says the following:

"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."

    So you see, Dashboard is really just a collection of web pages. It 
has nothing to do with any XUIL. This is almost like saying a new 
version of Opera is an "XUL motor".

    Not that it isn't cool, though, but you're stretching the definition 
of what makes an XUIL renderer.


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