Mambo Taxi

One of the fascinating things I've discovered is that mac is blurring the lines between web apps and local apps. OS X includes SOL (sqlite) and dashboard widgets are really locally executed javascripts. For example:

{
    if(window.widget)
    {
        document.getElementById("outputText").innerText = 
            (widget.system("/usr/bin/uptime", null).outputString);        
    }
}

That piece from /Developer/Examples/Dashboard/Uptime/Uptime.wdgt/Uptime.js from the Xcode download.

I've browsed Apple's beginner tutorials and if Tiger weren't going to make things so much easier to generate widgets, I think I'd be doing some widget programming in my free time right now.