It's becoming more and more apparent that Apple pretty much set the standard for widgets design and behavior on the desktop, so it's interesting to see how Yahoo/Konfabulator have spun around and caught up to a race they started. Apple’s Dashboard is getting quietly removed from the company’s upcoming macOS Catalina update, as first noted by Appleosophy and later reported by MacRumors. It's not surprising that the newest release of Yahoo Widgets bears an even closer resemblance to Mac Dashboard and Vista Sidebar. Since that initial big bang, browser widgets built in JavaScript or Flash have become an integral to the ecosystems of social networks, personalized homepages and blogs.
Around the same time, independent engines like Konfabulator and DesktopX challenged the bigger players.
First, they were incorporated into the Mac OS X desktop, then the Windows Vista desktop. Since those nascent days, widgets have really become a hit. Apple’s Dashboard is getting quietly removed from the company’s upcoming macOS Catalina update, as first noted by Appleosophy and later reported by MacRumors. This is only the second major release that Yahoo has put together since purchasing the Konfabulator platform on 2005. It's a cross-platform release, with (required) desktop engines available for Windows and Mac OS X. This morning, Yahoo announced the release of Yahoo Widgets 4, the company's platform for web-enabled mini apps on the desktop.
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