{"id":860,"date":"2004-06-30T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=860"},"modified":"2022-02-16T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:45:07","slug":"gadget-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/gadget-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadget Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDeveloping for Dashboard is nothing like developing for Konfabulator. There was almost zero chance that I would develop a a widget for Konfabulator. I&rsquo;d have to <a href=\"http:\/\/konfabulator.com\/workshop\/\">learn<\/a> a completely new platform, and anyone who wanted to use my widget would have to buy a license for that platform&rsquo;s runtime. Dashboard gadgets, on the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/hyatt\/archives\/2004_06.html#005876\">are Web pages<\/a>. I already know HTML and CSS, and I have a collection of tools for working with them. The runtime is free. If I want to use Cocoa or Java, I can do that, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/06\/dashboard_vs_konfabulator\">John Gruber<\/a> says:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/06\/dashboard_vs_konfabulator\">\n<p>\nIn terms of attracting hobbyist-level developers, Dashboard is going to be an order of magnitude more approachable than Cocoa application development. If you know HTML and CSS, you can design a gadget layout. If you know JavaScript, you can program a gadget.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nI can&rsquo;t think of any possible way that gadget development could be based on something that would enable more Mac nerds to get up and running writing their own gadgets. \n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>\nThe Konfabulator developers are in an unfortunate situation, partially of their own making, but what&rsquo;s getting lost in that coverage is that the Mac is now a platform for writing client-side Web applications.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing for Dashboard is nothing like developing for Konfabulator. There was almost zero chance that I would develop a a widget for Konfabulator. I&rsquo;d have to learn a completely new platform, and anyone who wanted to use my widget would have to buy a license for that platform&rsquo;s runtime. Dashboard gadgets, on the other hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-16T18:45:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"c075751b-1f1b-4350-bf89-b135b94116d1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-16T18:45:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwHV1Gx8bQ1C_ibE1uUEW0Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1742,2171,30],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-dashboard","tag-konfabulator","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35026,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/35026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}