Dashboard: Hmm.. Are these really widgets or are they mini-applications ? They seem to me to be too customised to be real widgets. Or at least they are widgets built from many other more basic widgets (eg. calculator is built from many buttons etc.) Can the widgets be tied together easily ? Or is the desktop the only place you can drag them ? (Being able to simply drag an application where you want it is a good idea.)
Anton. > Hi all, > > OS X provides pop up user utilities called widgets which reside in a > "dashboard" (see http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/) > Yahoo! have recently released a similar widget system for both Windows and > OS X (see http://widget.yahoo.com/) > > Both of these products are rather slow, memory intensive and complex to > develop for. > It would be fairly trivial to write a similar tool in rebol which may open > up the language to a number of new developers. Common widgets available > perform lookups on web sites and present the information in a clean > customised format. This type of "screen scraping" is already a strong area > for rebol. > > What does everyone think to this idea? > > Cheers, > John -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
