Comments on: What’s Yahoo’s Angle?

By: Dalle

Dalle — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:51:59 +0000

I would say that Dashboard use less power as Konfabulator opens a new instance for evry widget that cinda sux the power from the machine. but as you said Konfabulator have alot of good sides aswell, but that wont make normal users get it as they have dashboard on their machines already and they actually dont care or understand how widgets are built, and if Dashboard use 4% more processor they wouldent know or bother to care.

And what i said about widgets in Dashboard i meant that Yahoo would probably save some money doing that this would mean they dont have to go on improving the Apple Konfabulator as they can use Dashboard.

By: Twist

Twist — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:03:30 +0000

Konfabulator has its advantages over Dashboard. If you want to run a widget on the desktop then Konfabulator is much better suited for that since you can adjust the drawing layer the widget lives in. Also Konfabulator can be used to make widgets with any GUI. I built one of these to collect the contents of the clipboard and save them into a text file (a friend then built a GUI and we released it as Clipboard Collector). Konfabulator widgets also use few system resources from what I have seen.

About the Konfabulator widget need to work in Dashboard comment: no they don’t. They are two completely different implementations of the same basic idea. I prefer the way Konfabulator widgets are built since the code and the graphics are separated better than they are in Dashboard widgets. The system used for the placing of the graphics is also a lot cleaner than using HTML and CSS IMHO.

By: Dalle

Dalle — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:09:10 +0000

Maybe Microsoft will see that to and release the “WINDASH” or “MSDASH”

By: Dan Bruno

Dan Bruno — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:53:35 +0000

I bet Yahoo saw what Apple did with Dashboard on Mac and want to fill that gap on the PC. Between their name recognition and offering Konfabulator for free, they could probably get pretty good market saturation.

By: Dalle

Dalle — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:54:28 +0000

They have to have some plans for this dont ask me what. But why spend money on developing something that already is developed by a huge company (Dashboard that is) i can understand they want the windows users. It would be better to make shure that u can use konfibulator widgets in Dashboard. that would make it much cheaper.