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Weblog:   Dashboard - very cool. A must see.
Subject:   There's a flaw in the implementation IMHO
Date:   2003-07-20 09:24:00
From:   timoreilly
Response to: There's a flaw in the implementation IMHO

The hope, of course, is for an analogous set of instrumentation plug-ins for Mac OS X applications.


What it suggests to me, of course, is that all applications, whether open or closed source, ought to have an extensibility API that specifically supports instrumentation to allow systems like Dashboard. (FWIW, Macromedia's Central explores some similar concepts in inter-application communication; unfortunately, it supports only Flash-based applications.)

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  • There's a flaw in the implementation IMHO
    2003-07-20 14:58:29  rascasse [Reply | View]

    I'm the anonymous poster from above and thought I'd register this time! I've got a big smile on my face because after a week of mulling over the problem of getting this ported to OS X, I think I've come up with a great solution to some of the obstacles. Now, I just have to code up a prototype and take it from there. The approach actually diverges greatly from Dashboad's but the effect should be the same. Anyways, talk is cheap so I'll be quiet until I have something coded up.
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