{"id":2633,"date":"2004-06-30T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/01\/daring-fireball-on-dashboard-and-konfabulator\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:27:24","slug":"daring-fireball-on-dashboard-and-konfabulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/30\/daring-fireball-on-dashboard-and-konfabulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball on Dashboard and Konfabulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9390,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx\\\/tiger\\\/dashboard.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060720121456\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/macosx\\\/tiger\\\/dashboard.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 19:52:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 08:49:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 18:53:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 18:53:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10690,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/konfabulator.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120820232246\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www2.konfabulator.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:39:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 08:49:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 18:53:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 18:53:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3004,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10691,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/dashboard_vs_konfabulator&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306103805\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/dashboard_vs_konfabulator&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:39:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 08:49:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 18:53:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 18:53:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t poked my head into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/tiger\/dashboard.html\" title=\"Apple - Mac OS X - Tiger Preview - Dashboard\">Dashboard<\/a> versus <a href=\"http:\/\/konfabulator.com\/\" title=\"Konfabulator!\">Konfabulator<\/a> brouhaha for two reasons: firstly, I&#8217;m not a user of Konfabulator (looked at it, decided that it used far too much screen real estate for too little functionality, and that was that); and secondly, the whole thing seemed patently ridiculous to me.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\" title=\"Daring Fireball\">John Gruber<\/a> &#8212; who is <em>far<\/em> more qualified than I am to expound upon such things in any case &#8212; has done a masterful job of <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/06\/dashboard_vs_konfabulator\" title=\"Dashboard vs. Konfabulator\">explaining why this is really a non-issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A sliding puzzle. A calculator. A clock. A little notepad. Tiny little applets &#8212; little pieces of software that are something less than full applications themselves, but which run alongside real apps and are easily accessed at any time.<\/p>\n<p>  Obviously, Apple ripped off the idea for Dashboard. Stolen wholesale, without even the decency to mention where they took the original idea.<\/p>\n<p>  Which, of course, would be the desk accessories from the original 1984 Macintosh &#8212; conceived by Bud Tribble and engineered (mostly) by Andy Hertzfeld.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  The post-WWDC peanut gallery is atwitter with the idea that Tiger&#8217;s Dashboard is a blatant rip-off of Konfabulator. You can&#8217;t read <em>anything<\/em> about Dashboard without hearing that it&#8217;s a Konfabulator rip-off.<\/p>\n<p>  Bullshit. <em>Dashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator.<\/em> Yes, they are doing very much the same thing. But what it is that they&#8217;re doing was not an original idea to Konfabulator. The scope of a &#8220;widget&#8221; is very much the modern-day equivalent of a desk accessory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Mac community needs two things: more commentators like Gruber, and more people who <em>listen<\/em> to commentators like Gruber.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Goddess&#8221; by Soho from the album <em>Goddess<\/em> (1990, 5:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t poked my head into the Dashboard versus Konfabulator brouhaha for two reasons: firstly, I&#8217;m not a user of Konfabulator; and secondly, the whole thing seemed patently ridiculous to me. However, John Gruber has done a masterful job of explaining why this is really a non-issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}