Yahoo! Widgets Engine 3.1 available

Earlier this week, Yahoo! released version 3.1 of the Yahoo! Widgets Engine (formerly Konfabulator). As you may remember, Konfabulator (which was purchased by Yahoo! in December of last year) was the first application to bring "widgets" to our Macs. Changes in version 3.1 include:

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.

There's more, of course, and you can get the full run-down here. Yahoo! Widgets Engine (gee, that's cumbersome to type over and over) requires Mac OS 10.3 and is free.

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Earlier this week, Yahoo! released version 3.1 of the Yahoo! Widgets Engine (formerly Konfabulator). As you may remember, Konfabulator...

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someToast

And here I thought it just got cooler as time went on... especially 3.0.

Universal Binary is on the way.

April 13 2006 at 9:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter Kirn

I think YWE / Konfabulator deserves some love on the Mac. Its iCal widget is much more useful than Apple's. It lets you easily move widgets between the heads-up (Dashboard display) and where you can see them all time time (like if you're using a clock), as Apple should have done. It doesn't have all those silly Apple animations that slow you down. There are some great widgets on there, too, and you can move them to your Windows machine if you have to use a PC every now and then.

Both Dashboard and Yahoo can take up a lot of RAM and CPU if you don't watch what widgets you have open. But unlike Dashboard, you can quit Yahoo when you don't need it.

Choice is good.

April 13 2006 at 11:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas

I use this every day at work for the Day Planner widget. I'm in 10.3.9 and I love the fact that it ties into iCal.

April 13 2006 at 9:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Blah

Does it matter if it's UB? I don't know anyone who uses this program anymore. Sure, it was cool when it first began, but now it's just a bloated, RAM-eating piece of rubbish.

April 13 2006 at 9:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Not Universal Binary?

April 13 2006 at 8:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply