{"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":"

I haven’t poked my head into the Dashboard<\/a> versus Konfabulator<\/a> brouhaha for two reasons: firstly, I’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

However, John Gruber<\/a> — who is far<\/em> more qualified than I am to expound upon such things in any case — has done a masterful job of explaining why this is really a non-issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n A sliding puzzle. A calculator. A clock. A little notepad. Tiny little applets — 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

Obviously, Apple ripped off the idea for Dashboard. Stolen wholesale, without even the decency to mention where they took the original idea.<\/p>\n

Which, of course, would be the desk accessories from the original 1984 Macintosh — conceived by Bud Tribble and engineered (mostly) by Andy Hertzfeld.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The post-WWDC peanut gallery is atwitter with the idea that Tiger’s Dashboard is a blatant rip-off of Konfabulator. You can’t read anything<\/em> about Dashboard without hearing that it’s a Konfabulator rip-off.<\/p>\n

Bullshit. Dashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator.<\/em> Yes, they are doing very much the same thing. But what it is that they’re doing was not an original idea to Konfabulator. The scope of a “widget” is very much the modern-day equivalent of a desk accessory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Mac community needs two things: more commentators like Gruber, and more people who listen<\/em> to commentators like Gruber.<\/p>\n

iTunes:<\/strong> “Goddess” by Soho from the album Goddess<\/em> (1990, 5:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t poked my head into the Dashboard versus Konfabulator brouhaha for two reasons: firstly, I’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":[],"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633"}],"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}]}}