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November 29, 2007
Konfabulator goes Flash
Konfabulator goes Flash: Sort of a historical moment here. Konfabulator was one of the first popular desktop widget systems. It was originally an only-on-Macintosh architecture, using system-level AppleScript for interactivity. Later they added Windows through some other scripting mechanism, and joined Yahoo to become the basis of their desktop widget system. Now they're adding support for Adobe Flash Player, which is the fastest way to get high-level cross-environment support. Cool, welcome! I can't pull up the Yahoo Widgets Blog at the moment, but Mike Potter was early on with the news... Niall Kennedy has a short history of widgets (wijstory?)... here's my archive of Konfabulator posts. Potential win: If you make tools in SWF, it now seems easier to reach the Yahoo desktop audience, just as you reach lots of other audiences.
Posted by JohnDowdell at November 29, 2007 08:08 AM
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i can't get to the yahoo widgets blog either, alas.
in any case, this is fantastic news :)
Posted by: bunnyhero at November 29, 2007 12:52 PM
while the blog is down, this forum thread and the version history have more some information.
[jd sez: Great, thanks for the links! ;-) ]
Posted by: bunnyhero at November 29, 2007 12:55 PM