Widget Tossing

Okay, so we all "oohed" and "ahhed" at Apple's Dashboard feature coming in OS 10.4. We also know that Mozilla, Apple and Opera are all working together to get more powerful web scripting (not named ActiveX) into modern browsers. What do these two things have in common? J. Hobbs thinks that we'll have web plugins that we can drag into Dashboard. He says, "Want a persistent listing of your Google gmail inbox? Drag it off their webpage. Want the weather and extended forecast for your area? Drag it off their webpage." Of course, Arlo Rose and the Konfabulator development team are still pissed off. Apple should bring them into this project -- so that Konfabulator for Windows will get a jump on Microsoft.