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10.4: View Dashboard widgets in Safari
Authored by: zzen on May 08, '05 07:28:00AM

Actually, there are things you can view only in Dashboard, things which you can view in Safari aswell and things which might work in other browsers, too.

For example the Calculator or Stickies widgets almost work in FireFox. In Safari, they work completely (aswell as a slew of others). But FlightTracker (and others) work only in Dashboard.

Safari make only a few extensions to HTML (most notably the tag). Widgets that use it (like World Clock) don't work very well in other browsers. Dashboard adds on top of Safari a way to call various important functions via the window.widget JavaScript object. This is only available in Dashboard, thus things which require it stop working in Safari.

Regarding the posed questions: yes, all additions to HTML have been enrolled in the opensourced WebCore, so OmniWeb has perfect chance of supporting them. They have also been submited to a standards working group (WhatWG).



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