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Fun fact: Apple made up the <canvas> tag for Dashboard and it was later adopted as a web standard

I remember trying to make Dashboard widgets and got really hung up on trying to wrap my head around the canvas API. I didn't know that's where the current API is based off of though, very cool. :)

handrous4y ago

I prefer the Dashboard to its kind-of replacement, whatever they call the slidey-out widget sidebar thing you get when you click on the clock (which, unrelated to the comparison between those two since the Dashboard's invocation wasn't exactly sensible, either—what the hell?)

zonabey4y ago

Yes! You know Dashboard was a completely separate layer. I could watch a video in full screen and take notes with semi transparent stickes. Try doing that in full screen with the stickes app... You can't!

The dashboard feature is totally underrated. What would be even better would be if you could actually put any window in there.

Or if any window could be made semi transparent and float on top. And have that entire layer be toggleable with transitions....

It's total shame that they've removed it entirely.

wlesieutre4y ago

They're just called "Widgets in Notification Center" now. Agreed that Dashboard was more useful, if I could put the new widgets in an overlay instead of the sidebar I would.

kemillerOP4y ago

Nothing is perfect, but the Dashboard can be completely ignored and doesn't get in your way.

Wowfunhappy4y ago

The Dashboard has been disabled by default since 2014’s OS X Yosemite, they kept it around because there was no reason not to, some people liked it. (Including me.)

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