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Konfabulator now Yahoo! Widgets Engine

by Scott McNulty Dec 12th 2005 at 10:30AM

Yahoo! Widgets Engine Ah, Konfabulator, we knew ye well. It seems that Yahoo! has gone and changed the name of Konfabulator to Yahoo! Widgets Engine (rolls off the tongue, huh?) and released version 3.0 to boot.

What's new in version 3.0? Well, the version history hasn't been updated as of yet, but there have been a number of changes to the API, as well as some new features for widgets developers, and new widgets that interact with other Yahoo! properties. Oh, and it requires OS X10.3 or higher.

I can't wait until Yahoo! renames Flickr to Yahoo! Online Picture Sharing Engine.
 

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Ah, Konfabulator, we knew ye well. It seems that Yahoo! has gone and changed the name of Konfabulator to Yahoo! Widgets Engine (rolls off...
 

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Thomas

I like Konfab no matter what it's named. It's free, works on Mac and PC and Tiger is not necessary. :)

December 13 2005 at 5:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Xenedar

If you're going to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0, make a backup of your "Where Is It?" widget, as 3.0 will replace it with a new Yahoo-only widget. If you still have the Konfabulator 2.1 disk image, you can also open the Konfabulator package and go to Contents > Resources > Welcome > Contents > Documents > Widgets and copy "Where Is It?" out of there.

December 12 2005 at 10:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ToV

And soon... Flickr will be Yahoo! Photo Sharing Community Engine and del.icio.us will be Yahoo! Bookmarks Engine The minute the Yahoo! name appears on either of those site titles is when I quit them.

December 12 2005 at 12:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stridey

I installed it, and immediately trashed it in favor of Konfab 2.1. It just felt bad. Plus, desktop level widgets did the wrong thing with desktop expose. I'm not sure what I'll do once widgets that only support YWE come out.

December 12 2005 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jdepew

Searching for 'gmail' in the new Yahoo! Widgets gallery produces no results, while it still works fine and shows GmailGeiger and others through the old Konfabulator search... hrmmm... ps - this was through the windows gallery.

December 12 2005 at 12:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fred V

My, what a cruddy sellout of a name!

December 12 2005 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

A quick read of the docs shows these improvements for developers: - built-in XML parser - groups of objects (subviews/frames) - support for JavaScript functions for actions - Yahoo! login support - scrollbar objects - ability to get complete headers of an HTTP response

December 12 2005 at 11:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

The only reason i really use knofabulator is to track my stocks (albeit 15 minutes delayed). any suggestions on a free-standing stock-ticker for OSX?

December 12 2005 at 11:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jimmy Norton

Yeah, the name change doesn't work well IMO.

December 12 2005 at 11:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave Caolo

Ugh, that's pretty horrible.

December 12 2005 at 11:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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