TIL old Mac Dashboard Widgets are made entirely out of HTML, CSS, and JS. Hopefully, we’ll be able to someday add our own to the site to try old third-party Dashboard widgets. Sadly, the site is limited just to the few widgets that Zane was able to pull. You can still flip them around to change settings like the color of a sticky note or the city of the world clock. Their web-based architecture means that some of them are still live to this day, and Zane’s website is just designed to surface them again. In fact, they are exactly the same widgets Apple used to ship with macOS. When using the site on iPhone, the widgets will stack vertically rather than horizontally.Īll of the widgets work just as you’d expect them to. Kleinberg’s new website is best used through a desktop browser on a Mac or iPad, but it also works on iPhone. This enabled him to revive several old Apple-designed widgets, including calculator, world clock, unit converter, stickies, and the tile puzzle. Kleinberg explained how classic macOS widgets, first introduced in Tiger, were made entirely out of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The same developer behind the now incredibly popular “OldOS” TestFlight app for iPhone, Zane Kleinberg, is back with a new tool that lets you use classic macOS widgets through a web browser.
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