Widget Wurld.
For the most part, Dashboard (link goes to gratuitous Apple marketing page) in OS X Tiger has left me pretty tepid. It's certainly visually beautiful and slick, but I find its weird modal operation kind of useless. Most of the widgets I've seen so far have been charitably best described as "pretty dumb."
But today I finally found one I want to install. An RDoc Dashboard widget.
But I still hate the modality of it all. That really bothers me, and is so un-Mac like. The HIG used to preach hard against the evilness of modal applications. Then again, Mac on Intel? Who woulda thunk it?
Comments
I'm kind of into the Dashboard thing. I agree that you should be able to treat Dashboard apps as full fledged apps, but it's an interesting strategy to restrict a lot of unnecessary calls to web services while idling. I think the development model is really cool... let people totally leverage their web dev skills. I didn't expect to like it or use it, but I do...
Posted by: Luke | June 9, 2005 2:03 PM
Just came across this, BTW. Dev Mode widget lets you drag widgets off the dashboard layer and back.
http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=671
Posted by: Luke Melia | June 9, 2005 11:36 PM