konfabulator

Konfabulator is a shareware JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X which runs small applications called Widgets. It combines this engine with an XML document structure that can be used to author custom Widgets. Widgets created by Konfabulator's users may be downloaded from Konfabulator's Widget Gallery, in addition to ones by Arlo Rose & Perry Clarke, the creators. Mac OS X 10.4 contains a feature similar to Konfabulator called Dashboard. Konfabulator for Windows was released on November 8, 2004. Its main commercial competitor on the Windows platform is DesktopX, developed by Stardock. Another Windows-only program offering similar functionality is the freeware widget engine, Kapsules. The JavaScript engine used by Konfabulator is the Mozilla Spidermonkey implementation, and currently conforms to Mozilla JavaScript version 1.5, (equivelent to ECMAScript 262 edition 3, with Mozilla extensions).

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Konfabulator provides a feature called Konspos, which is patterned after Mac OS X's Expos. It is activated by pressing the F8 key, which causes all Widgets to be brought to the foreground, and all other applications to be dimmed. Widgets can be set to be Konspos-only, so that they'll only appear when Konspos is activated.

Konfabulator authors

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