<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>not to knock either, but....aren't these widgets sort of just nice toys, but not really key to the computing experience?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Don't get me wrong, I have used both Konfabulator AND Dashboard, and found both to be good, but not critical. in fact, good and distracting. So, I wonder about people whose focus is their widgets.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>uh..it's like when you consider all people need to be doing with their computers, widgets are (for me) sorta way down on the list.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>in fact, if gil bates were to really throw lot of money and people into making his version of widgets the best in the Universe, I'd see it as a monument to his olympian ego and stupidity.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Philip J Robar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">Konfabulator is not a copy or version of Apple's Widgets. In fact Konfabulator inspired Apple's Widgets. But, unlike most people think, Apple's Widgets borrow only the idea of Konfabulator and not the implementation. Under the hood Apple's Widgets are very different from Konfabulator and in fact are a technically superior implementation of the idea. (According to the articles I've read. Sorry, I don't have references at hand, but they shouldn't be too hard to find on the web.)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Gill Sans; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">Phil</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>