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.'"

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Re:CSS3 & more!

[moosesocks]

I will say this once, and I will say it now.

Safari's CSS Support isn't that great. Please don't interpret this as a flame. Safari's CSS support has often been touted as being one of its best features. This simply isn't true.

Moz/Firefox, Opera, and IE 6 are all far more CSS compliant than Safari. I'm not saying that Safari's CSS support is bad, just that it's subpar. There are certain quirks (namely with the height attribute which frustrate me to no end.

Since you mentioned DHTML, I might also bring up that it too is somewhat lacking in the current version of Safari. Many sites which work fine on IE and Firefox refuse to work on Safari due to scripting issues. I'm not qualified to say weather or not this is because people are tailoring their sites around IE's faulty implementation, but I can say that there are a lot of sites with dynamic navigation controls which don't work in safari.

So many people comment on Safari's good support of this and that. Many of these people have never used it, let alone developed a site with it.

There's a lot I like about safari, but there are just too many issues which need to be fixed.

Oh yeah... BTW, why on earth is Apple using a standard which isn't finalized yet. CSS3 is nowhere close to being done. Let's not repeat what happened with CSS and CSS2 and release browsers with broken implementations of a standard which hasn't even been finished.

Article moderation

[humina]

I was trying to moderate the posting funny but I couldn't find out where.

Software Patents

[polyp2000]

Who says software patents are a good idea?

I think this is a classic example of why software patents are evil. Maybe they are not in play in this instance. This is an example of one of the big boys getting a taste of their own medicine. Lets see if they get a patent for dashboard now heh!