Apple’s operating system OS X has been supplied with a feature/app called Dashboard since version 10.4 Tiger. Dashboard is effectively a layer that appears on top of your desktop, displaying a number of custom “widgets” to tell you pretty much anything you want to know, like world times, flight times, your ebay sales etc etc… Since the release of 10.4, thousands upon thousands of these so-called “widgets” have been developed, and in this tutorial I will describe how you can do the same, using the power of jQuery.
Dashboard Widgets
All Dashboard Widgets are effectively mini websites in a tight wrapper. The basic structure of any widget is an HTML file (assume your index file for example), a number of related javascript files to control the widget and its custom controls, such as buttons – and a number of image files. Sounds pretty familiar right?
