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Archives => 2009 => Topic started by: Francine Eisner on January 22, 2009, 09:04:51 AM

Title: Re: Widgets
Post by: Francine Eisner on January 22, 2009, 09:04:51 AM
Is there any way to get Widgets to work on Panther? I see some very useful ones.

I do have a few widgets, actually. Yahoo widgets work on Panther but all the rest specify OS 10.4 or higher

Francine
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Title: Re: Widgets
Post by: Paddy on January 22, 2009, 01:49:01 PM
If you mean widgets downloaded from Apple, the short answer is no.

Dashboard, which hosts the mini-applications known as widgets became part of the OS with Tiger. There are approximately 5000 widgets available through Apple, but you do need Dashboard and therefore a minimum of OS 10.4.

The Yahoo widgets on the other hand, use what used to be known as Konfabulator - you can use it in 10.3.9.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/upgrade/

Looks like there are just as many widgets too...