Dashboard Not a Konfabulator Rip-off

MacNN writes "John Gruber says the origins of Apple's Dashboard technology, announced as part of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger earlier this week, are not with Arlo Rose's Konfabulator, but with Apple's original Desk Accessories and that Apple's Webcore-based implementation will allow many more developers/designers to create 'gadgets' much more easily and that Dashboard's 'gadgets' will offer much better performance: 'Dashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator. Yes, they are doing very much the same thing. But what it is that they're doing was not an original idea to Konfabulator. The scope of a 'widget' is very much the modern-day equivalent of a desk accessory.'"

Comments

Re:If it walks like a duck,

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly it's a cowdog.

Re:Who cares what this guy thinks?

[Anonymous Coward]

Arlo, is that you?

Re:If it walks like a duck,

[Anonymous Coward]

One fine day there was a woof and a moo.
A baby was born from Mac System 2.
No blue paper clip, a resource hog,
Just a bovine/canine little CowDog.

Cow Dog!, Cow Dog!
In the print preview is the little CowDog!

Out on the Serial bus or here on the screen,
All kind of DOS-heads hate CowDog sight unseen.
Gotta rise above it, gotta try to get along.
Gotta walk together, gotta sing this song.

CowDog! CowDog!
In the print preview is the little CowDog!

Re:Good response, but what about others?

[Cuthalion]

we'll just clone the damned thing faster than Redmond copied the Trash basket

So it will take .. roughly 10 years?

Re:CSS3 & more!

[nocomment]

The first thing I thought of when I read the announcement last week (Monday???) was the Font DA mover. Man I feel old now.