Quick update on the video cast thing: I'll be doing the first weekly KDE video cast next Saturday, the 15th, at 17:00 UTC. I'll put up the URL along with topics later in the week, and will invite you all to join us live in the irc channel (whose name I'll also announce closer to the date).
I'm excited!
Also, to all those people who responded to the call for clean-room implementations of Apple Dashboard widgets JavaScript classes: I haven't received updates on all the classes that people had said they were working on, so if you could please send me an update at your convenience so I can know whether to re-assign the class you had claimed to someone else or not. Thanks =)
Saturday, November 08, 2008
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Aaron,
Sorry for the silence in the work progress with AppleButton.
As I said before, I implemented exactly and strictly what that API doc you linked described but as close as possible to web standards.
However, looking for small examples (in that time, not full widgets yet but small tutorials and alike) I found another doc that showed me that Apple's logic is far, far away from web standards (based on what the author said would be necessary to obtain the button's label, for instance, not by Apple's code - I want to make that clear) and I'm now reverse engineering this issue. The next step will be find actual widgets to see if they'll fully work.
Another thing is I hit a Webkit's bug. I'll report it if it's still there after I install and test with KDE trunk. I intent to do that today and, possibly, I'll be testing actual widgets tomorrow or next Wednesday. Depending on that, I may be done.
I badly can wait to finish it already so I can JS-hack KDE more! ;-)
There is a Woot widget that uses the classes AppleInfoButton.js, AppleButton.js, and AppleAnimator.js. It is basically one button (AppleGlassButton) and the item description/picture.
Right now the widget loads and displays the description, but other than that it doesn't do anything.
It also uses growl, bonus points anyone? :D
http://www.michaelstowe.com/woot/
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