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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3/10.3.9/10.4 PPC
- Date added: April 10, 2006
- Total Downloads: 227
- Downloads last week: 9
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From Shahin Monsef :The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.
What sets Yahoo! Widget Engine apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of today's advanced graphics. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Windows XP and Mac OS X.
The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.
For the "skinning" crowd, Yahoo! Widget Engine is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.
What's new in this version:
- Added support for a new flat file format for Widgets which permits signing or Widget code to enhance security.
- Added preference to control whether or not the Widget Engine automatically starts up when your system starts.
- Implemented importNode() from the Level 2 DOM spec.
- Implemented widget.extractFile( path ) API to allow people with flat file Widgets to extract files for use. For example, we need this internally to play sound files since we can only play soun... see all new features
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