Konfabulator
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Konfabulator is a shareware JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X and Windows which runs small applications called Widgets. It combines this engine with an XML document structure that can be used to author custom Widgets. In addition to those created by Arlo Rose & Perry Clarke, the authors of Konfabulator, Widgets created by Konfabulator's users are also available to download and install. Mac OS X v10.4 contains a feature similar to Konfabulator called Dashboard.
Originally a Mac-only application, Konfabulator for Windows was released on November 8, 2004. Its main commercial competitor on the Windows platform is DesktopX, developed by Stardock. Other programs offering similar functionality include Kapsules (for Windows), gDesklets (for GNOME/Linux), and SuperKaramba (for KDE/Linux).
The JavaScript engine used by Konfabulator is the Mozilla SpiderMonkey implementation, and currently conforms to Mozilla JavaScript version 1.5, (equivalent to ECMAScript 262 edition 3, with Mozilla extensions).
Konfabulator version 2.0 was released on May 18, 2005.
Konsposé
Konfabulator provides a feature called Konsposé, which is patterned after Mac OS X's Exposé. Activated (by default) by pressing the F8 key, this causes all Widgets to be brought to the foreground, and all other applications to be dimmed. Widgets can be set to be Konsposé-only, meaning that they'll only appear when Konsposé is activated.
Konfabulator authors
External links
- Konfabulator homepage (http://www.konfabulator.com/)
- Konfabulator Widget gallery (http://www.widgetgallery.com/)
- Konfabulator vs. Dashboard (http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator)