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Dashboard II

Dashboard II 06/30/2004 08:57 PM

I've seen plenty of opinions on "what Dashboard is." Just to prove a point that there are many ways to think about this new feature, here's another perspective on what Dashboard is (from a browser geek's perspective): HTML sidebar panels liberated from the browser window and placed anywhere on the screen. The "Web pages as widgets" concept is really just a logical extension of the Web sidebar panel metaphor.

In a Web browser like Mozilla, for example, the sidebar can be toggled with a key, the panels inside can be viewed, and individual panels can be selected, reordered, managed, and added/deleted. Custom panels can be installed into the sidebar and people have written panels for Mozilla, Opera, etc. that do everything from FedEx package tracking to HTML validation.

In other words, like the Desktop Accessories of yore, the sidebar panels in Web browsers are little Web page accessories that perform basic functions like stock checking, calculators, monitors, alert systems, etc., which brings me to my point:

The concept of Web pages as accessories inside a browser has existed for years.

However the sidebar metaphor suffers from usability problems. The inability to scale up to many widgets as well as being constrained by the browser's window width. It's also hard to view multiple panels at once. The panels are also tied to a particular application (the browser) despite frequently having no connection to the application itself.

A logical way of solving these sidebar panel usability problems is to free those panels from the browser window and make them accessible anywhere on the screen (both invokable and dismissable with the touch of a key). This gives you the real estate you need to really make the widgets useful, lets you show multiple widgets at once, and makes the UI for panel configuration easier, since you have more room to represent the user interface for configuration.




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I haven't blogged in a long time, primarily because I've been so busy preparing for WWDC (working frantically on my presentation as well as fixes to WebCore to support Safari RSS and Dashboard of course). I'll be talking about both Dashboard and Safari RSS a lot more in depth (primarily from the perspective of all the new open source WebCore features that were added to support these two new features) once I've gotten some sleep. :)

I wanted to blog briefly to clear up what the widgets actually are written in. They are Web pages, plain and simple (with extra features thrown in for added measure). Apple's own web site says "build your own widgets using the JavaScript language", but that's sort of misleading. The widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing.

In other words, each widget is just a web page, and so you have the full power of WebKit behind each one... CSS2, DOM2, JS, HTML, XMLHttpRequest, Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc. I'll have a lot more to say later on, but I thought it important to clear that up right up front, since a lot of people were asking me about it in email and such.


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Todd Dominey writes about Dashboard in his blog and asks some questions that I'd like to clear up.

A Dashboard widget is a bundle that contains a principal HTML file and any supporting code that the widget requires (be it CSS, JS, images, or native code). A widget can add an optional interface to native code, written in Objective-C, that can be bound into JavaScript and made accessible from the HTML document's JS window object.

In other words, an address book widget could inject a property called "addressBook" into the JS window object of an address book widget's HTML document, and then expose methods and properties on that object that can be invoked from the JS. This effectively allows you to execute native code through the use of this special type of plugin.

The "native code as a service accessible from JS" model should be familiar to anyone who has used XPCOM with XUL. It's essentially the same idea. Extensions to the Firefox browser that contain native code can expose that native code to script as an XPCOM service, and then that object can be obtained from JS and have methods/properties invoked.

Again, when viewed from a certain perspective, this is a competitive Web browser feature that has been fused with Expose. These widgets that might otherwise have had to be inside the browser window as sidebar panels or toolbars have been set free by the brilliant idea of using Expose.

Anyway, some points about this model.
(1) The native plugin code must be owned by root. This means that in order for a Dashboard widget that contains one of these special types of plugins to execute that code, you have to enter a root account password (to chown the plugin code). This plugin code cannot execute, therefore, without the widget being "blessed" just as an application that you might install on your system must be.
(2) This plugin will not be present in Safari or other WebKit applications, and is only accessible from Dashboard.
(3) The dashboard object is also exposed on the JS window object of the HTML document and has methods for "meta-functions" that the Dashboard can execute.

As for many of the animations, fades, slides, etc in the widgets themselves., they simply look so damn cool because of Safari's rich support for CSS3 used in conjunction with DHTML. Do you know what I talked about at WWDC? Image replacement. Sliding doors. Using opacity to create fade effects. CSS3 text truncation. Web standards. All of which are being used to full effect in Dashboard widgets. Our standards support has grown so rich and our engine has become so smooth at effects that people are constantly mistaking pure JS/DHTML/CSS stuff that people are doing for something fancier. I've heard "That's HTML?!" several times in the past week.

Now it is true that we have made many extensions to WebCore, but only in places where there are holes in HTML that must be filled. And even then, we have tried to implement compatible models or to design so that our enhancements could be standardized in the future.

For example, the new WebCore supports all of WinIE's drag events, and that's how drag and drop is done in the Dashboard. So at the same time we added this rich support to WebCore, we also added support for a feature that can now be used in Web pages in a compatible fashion with WinIE. We started with a compatible base and enhanced drag and drop to allow you to dynamically set the drag image and even enhanced CSS with a new drag pseudo-class so that you could re-resolve style on the element while it's being dragged, but at the core, we made sure to pick a practical starting point.

In other examples, we added support for new slider widgets and search field widgets (wrapping NSSlider and NSSearchField respectively). HTML is missing these widgets, and so we had to add them so that Dashboard widgets could use them. But even there we did so in a way that is designed to be compatible with other browsers.


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OK - I've now had time to cool down, rea d all the rebutts and opinions and I even spammed by friends list with a "Boycott Apple" plea.

So now we can get some perspective on all this.

Dashboard appears to be little HTML panes - which indeed should enable anyone to add anything they like. It kind of reminds me of the Bl ogrolling Commons distribution idea - I gave to Jason DeFillippo last year.

This is what drew me to help Laszlo and their BlogBox objects and recently the Tribe Cast objects.

So believe me - I live, breath and sleep toolbars, add-ins, bookmarklets and any sort of anything that's open and can be used for enabling software to get used anywhere.

Certainly this is where the mobile services world is going too - becoming an extension of our PC lives.

Alf Eaton brings up a obvious point:

I guess the widgets won't be able to load the actual code in from outside, unlike Macromedia Central or Laszlo widgets - so maybe there could be a separate kind of floaty widget that could load in code pages (rather than just data) from the net but wouldn't be able to access the system.

Without being able to "API Into" a system, these little HTML pages are nothing more than just - well HTML pages.

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No special equipment is required to see the 3D images, but users do have to sit directly in front of the screen to get the full effect. (Thanks, Teemu!)

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KDS adds new 19-inch flat panel display
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11/12/2003 01:18 PM
KDS USA has added the Rad-9b, a 19-inch flat panel monitor, to its existing Radius flat-panel display line-up. The display integrates an acute 0.29mm pixel pitch and 16.7-million displayable colors in an 1.62-inch form factor. The Rad-9b boasts two built-in, two-watt stereo speakers, a 500:1 contrast ratio and 1280x1024 resolution at 75Hz.

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