Google gadgets came to the Mac today and now Yahoo is releasing an update of their own. They’ve upgraded their Konfabulator widget platform to 4.5 (not currently up) and overhauled their site’s user interface to incorporate better user feedback.
While you can get all the technical improvements from Yahoo’s own upcoming announcement. The highlights are support for Flash and HTML and the addition of some new partners. Flash and HTML support mean that widget development won’t only be more familiar to web developers, but also more easily support new applications such as video.
Yahoo is also following through on some previous partnership announcements, making Netvibes UWA available as desktop widgets as well as adding the widgets from widget analytics services Clearspring and MuseStorm.
Woo hoo. Yahoo.
But, alas, Yahoo crashes on me all the time. I can’t stand it.
google gadgets? never heard of it.
Their new AJAX-style site and installer plugin is confusing. Also, the app does not work on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Until now I can not see any installer for the new Google Gadgets for Mac.
Maybe this will change during the day…
Alas, I’m with Angela on this — Yahoo Widgets, as cool and commanding a presence as they are, hang my laptop and cause other bizarre behaviors when loaded.
I know it’s not Yahoo’s fault BUT all my server-class software (app servers, databased, et al) apps that I work with day-in and day-out work fine…
Not sure what is the point of these web widgets if Firefox offers a great add-on that can extract data from any kind of website. Does anyone know any really useful widget? On the other hand, I have more than 20 web browser macros that I use daily.
Does Yahoo ever come up with any original ideas?
I am afraid not…
I’m looking to make a widget out of my RSS feed, anyone know of tools to do that?
@6,7: You guys are idiots if you think Google gadgets was first.
Yahoo is really on the ball people!
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Looks like a good alternative to Adobe AIR for taking web apps to the desktop. Which is better and easier?
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