Yahoo Widget Engine 4.5 - Widgets für den Desktop

Widgets sind kleine Helferlein, die die unterschiedlichsten Informationen anzeigen können und für nahezu jeden Zweck erstellt werden können. So lassen sich mit dem Standard-Paket bereits das Wetter, die Uhrzeit, verschiedene Nachrichten und sogar Börsendaten anzeigen.
In Version 4.5 haben die Entwickler einige bedeutende Neuerungen vorgenommen. So können Widgets nun auch mit Hilfe von HTML oder Flash realisiert werden, was für deutlich mehr Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten sorgt. Außerdem soll die Software nun in Sachen Sicherheit besser gegen Angriffe gewappnet sein. Ausführliche Informationen zu den Änderungen, gibt es auf der Homepage der Entwickler.

Changelog:

• Implemented text speedup for Mac.
• Fixed event.key
• Added support for numlock modifier on keyboard, mouse, and drag events
• map the window levels correctly (mac only)
• Added timeout property to XHR.
• Added JSON object (from json.org).
• Leopard support
• Fix issue with unlocalized "Preferences" submenu in system tray.
• Allow CSS to affect text alignment even in non-wrapped text objects. Only works with a minimum version of 4.5 or later.
• Fix issue where saveImageToFile() couldn't deal with scrolled frames.
• Fix localization of preferences dialog title.
• Fix localization of dialog title when iTunes is not installed.
• FINALLY support ctrl-a and ctrl-e in the evaluation field in the debug window on Windows.
• Always set system.event when minVersion >= 4.5. system.event is, however, considered deprecated. You should always use the event passed to your handlers.
• Implement URL properties to expose a URL 'cracking' API, i.e. you can access the components of a URL.
• Get Drag/Drop working for window objects (Windows only?)
• Allow 0 as a valid length value in CSS. It's supposed to be valid.
• Only print warnings about elements being in widget and metadata files if the values actually differ
• Changed XPath to work to spec. It wasn't returning the correct result for string() functions.
• Added window.getCurrentMousePosition()
• Added window.close()
• Added widget.createWindowFromXML()
• Lazier GC on minimum version or 4.5 or greater.
• Added onPreferencesCancelled.
• We now properly propagate exceptions thrown in the ready state callback of an XMLHttpRequest through to the open or send call that may have called it.
• Fixed issues with text files getting double linefeeds.
• Made sure the main window doesn't get shown if hidden and form() is called.
• Fixed issue where we couldn't parse XML with DOCTYPE, particularly for vitality.
• Added Display object and various functions to allow you to get the display list.
• Added Rectangle object to allow you to do fun things like union and intersection. Wahooo!!!
• Fixed various canvas drawing issues.
• Now allow canvas to render another canvas via drawImage.
• Ubiquitous mouse handlers.
• No more crashing when calling removeChild on context menu items.
• No more crashing when passing an anonymous function to URL.fetchAsync().

Homepage: Widgets.Yahoo.com

Lizenztyp: Freeware
Download: widgetsus.exe (14,3 Mb)