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Continuing Improvements to WebKit and Dashboard

Dashboard Developers,

Since the release of Mac OS X Tiger, developers have delivered thousands of great Dashboard widgets to users around the world.  Apple is constantly working to improve the Dashboard experience for both users and developers.  Apple and the Open Source community continue to advance standards compliance in the WebKit engine behind Dashboard to improve compatibility with the web and decrease development time for content providers, resulting in a better experience for you and your customers.

Through the Web Kit open source project, you have a rare opportunity to test your widget's compatibility with Web Kit before it ships to your customers.  We're very interested in seeing you try your widget content with a nightly build of Safari from http://nightly.webkit.org to make sure our emphasis on standards compliance is a success.

An ADC article on working with nightly Web Kit builds is at the following URL:

http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/nightlywebkit.html

This describes how to get started with nightly builds and also details changes to the canvas object -- a big part of widget development -- as a result of its ongoing standardization process.  Many other changes are underway as well.  This is a great opportunity to not only prepare for the future but also shape it by giving us feedback in the form of bug reports before we release a product.

Please feel free to contact me with any concerns or feedback about these new developments.  I hope you will take the time to work with us in making Dashboard as good as it possibly can be in both the near- and short-term future.

md
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Matt Drance
Sharing Technologies Evangelist
Worldwide Developer Relations
mdrance@apple.com

 

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