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The MacDailyNews Widget (version 1.1) looks like this:
The MacDailyNews Widget icon in the Dashboard:
More info and download link: MacDailyNews Dashboard Widget.
The MacDailyNews Dashboard Widget is available from:
• Apple.com’s Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets Downloads page
• DashboardWidgets.com
• DashboardLineup.com
Seems to be working OK
Pretty nice. My two complaints (or suggestions) is a scalable window, and if you had some way of letting us know what links we’ve already clicked.
is something in my safari configured wrong? when i click on the link, a get a blank page with no address, that i then have to close. not a pleasant user experience.
cool
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I prefer RSS for news.
im with treehouse
I have MDN with 7 other tech sites on one clickable RSS feed in Safari 2.0. Very nice.
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Apple recommends on their developer site that Aqua interface elements should not be used in dashboard widgets, as they are not part of the Aqua interface. The scroll-bar and button are both in violation of this recommendation.
RSS is the way.
Nice! You’ve just enabled my addiction to this site! Pushers!
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I like the MDN widget, but I have to agree with Ian. The aqua scroll bar has to go. Whoever created the widget should be able to create a more suitable scroll interface.
Otherwise, thank you for the widget.
BUG REPORT:
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The close widget icon (round circle containing an X) is not aligned to the top left corner of the MDN widget window. It is positioned about 20 pixels above and to the left of the top left corner of the MDN widget. It’s floating in space.
keyword: trouble, as in your widget has some trouble in its design. Needs some tweaking.
A good first attempt; but it is an “average” (MW) widget.
Moving on, I agree with Ian.
Nice try, but boooring. What makes widgets cool are presentation!!
Don’t just reinvent the browser, make something that’s lickable!
BUGREPORT: Well, just from the screenshots actually, but where are the ads??!? I can’t recognize MDN without them!
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SEVERITY: Causes problem with no workaround
is anyone able to do an image search on images.google.com right now?
/sorry to jack the thread. I came here because my lovely MDN widget told me to.
MDN: can you add some kind of comment or thread tracker to your widget, or better yet just make a comments widget? It would be nice to be able to check in at a glance to see if Sputnik has responded to my post without have to reload the page each time. Now that would be a useful MDN widget!
Leave the news stuff to RSS, we need the widget to check on whether the trolls need feeding
I’m with Video @ 11 on this:
Good 1st attempt but let’s not just replicate a web page with widgets folks.
When it comes to widgets, how about some live interactive shit!
Well, if there is an MDN widget, does that mean it will pop-up other widgets?
Jus wunderin
zing!
Borrowed from MacMinute, anyone?
“tell us how it works …”
Shouldnt you know how it works? Is this the new Apple way – roll out unfinished software?
Come on, be a bit fair to macdailynews, henry!
Software is like a house, it is never finished. When you have lived there for a while, you find that you would like to remove a wall, add a window, or whatever. You and I would probably not want the same type of house. Still, the widget should be a house fitting as many as possibe. Apple could make a survey using interviews and testing an application or concept on many people before actually letting it out of the lab. You cant’t expect macdailynews o have that kind of resources, can you? They can either just release it, or make a beta release like they do now. Come to think of it, they all make beta releases, right?
Get my point? Is it somewhat valid?
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Anyhow, I love all those free Mac news sites!!
u g l y.
Personally I hate widgets and all that other eye candy clutter.
I am sure someone has already made a widget to collect all widgets that are on websites.
Text needs to be black, or something easier to read.
Really cool. I was using gDesklets on Linux to get RSS feeds lately. Of course Tiger will be at my door hopefully Monday.
can i get one with a Thurott filter? And add on the Windows Angst filter too. And can you have one that filters out the phrase from every Macdailynews ‘take’ – “For our Windows-only friends, there really is a better way,…blah blah link to mac mini” because there are no Windows fans here, just Mac heads.
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If the distant floating close box annoys you:
locate the widget in finder and “show package contents;
open Info.plist in Property List Editor;
change CloseBoxInsetX & Y values to 16 and 25, respectively;
close & reopen the widget after saving.
Those values worked well for me.
I just downloaded the newest version. Close circle has been fixed, and personally I like the scrolling…. is it different then the one you guys have?
I like it because I can use my scroll wheel with this widget, as most widgets don’t allow me to.
I’m with Dank – sure wish the Yahoo traffic widget would support my scroll button, too.
According to Apple’s design standard regarding widgets, standard HTML elements, like default form buttons and scroll bars are not allowed. The Dashboard SDK has examples of how to use custom scroll boxes and images for buttons.
For me, MDN is like all of my other websites; just check ’em once in the morning and move on. News, especially technology news, isn’t anything like weather data and dictionaries, things that need to be quickly F12ed.
If MDN actually does have some readers that must stay abreast of the latest MDN news item, good for them. But, these readers really need to find a life though.
I like it just fine. And I also like the Aqua scroll bars.
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