The iPhone and vestigial Widgets

Can someone package some widgets for installer.app?
SOmeone already took care of the libraries and widget.app.

Ah, I didn't realize the widgets ran in Dock.app. I use 10.3 and haven't played around with 10.4, so was speculating.

#7: no, this is a common misconception because Weather and Stock Quote look like their widget counterparts on Tiger. On the iPhone, these are apps (.app). As Erica notes, the iPhone has no native widget support (yet?).

The thing is, the iPhone already supports Widgets. One look at the Weather and Stock Quote "Widget" tells us that. We need to find out what library they use, If any.

Gordon, actually, I dont' think that's the case. If you know just a bit abput the internals of OS X, you should know that Widgets run in Dock.app, and that the Dashboard.app that sits in the Applications folder is just a trigger that interacts with Dock.

So they must have taken code from Dock to develop a stand-alone Widget interpreter. Then yes, they probably had Widget support in mind while developing the iPhone, but cut it out for some reason.

i found this app that let's you download 100's of different apps-- it's very simple.

it's clear apple wants developers to expand and optimize the iphone.

there's a video tutorial that breaks it down here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yETCLqtSVCg

let me know how it works out.

i have been unable to stop playing tap tap revolution for days. :)

LGordon: That's not how they do widgets and dashboard on OS X.

not exactly, what do we know ships with leopard? anyone? anyone? Bueller? well it happens to be a widget development kit like none other... i will venture to guess that third party support will come shortly after leopard

How is it "clear that Apple designed expandable Widget support for iPhone but cut it out at some stage of the design/delivery process" ? If they're just slimming down OS X to fit on the phone, wouldn't it be a good chance that they left some things in by accident?

Interesting.... I had thought before we all found out there would be no support for third party apps, that they would be based mostly on widgets. I'm sure the missing Dashboard.app is resting somewhere on a drive in Cupertino just waiting to get onto our iPhones... some day.