TechCrunch links up Carnegie Mellon student Richard Hong and his pretty much pixel-perfect looking rendition of Apple's Mac OS X Dashboard widget platform... on the iPad! The video shows not only the widgets working, but being added from the web and managed on the iPad as well.
We don't know if Hong will submit this to the App Store, and given that the rights to many if not all those widgets are owned by other people, we're not even sure if it could be submitted, but we do know we'd like to see something like that from Apple. Hey, it's been rumored. If not, an old-school "desktop" style app using another, open widget platform would be nifty to see as well.
Video after the break. (Tap the link below the box if you're on your iPhone or iPod touch).
Dashboard on iPad from Rich Hong on Vimeo.
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Mac OS X-style Dashboard App for iPad
A little bit of Macbook on my pad. Nice! I like it.
If it's running the actual Dashboard widgets I highly doubt it would get approved as it is effectively running 3rd party code.
My understanding is that DashCode is pretty much JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, so that might not be a problem so much as he's running other people's code who may not have given permission for its use.
I want widgets they look cool
Wow! Cool.. looks like it does bridge the Macbook, iPhone gap. It's like having a touch screen MacBook 13"
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i really hope this all comes out in v4.0 os
I think we will see what an ipad can really do soon.apple is waiting till sales slow to give us firmware updates that will blow our mind
Good point MrC about the 3rd party code, but as Rene Ritchie says, widgets are indeed JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The 'dashboard App' is effectively a web-browser that can load widgets.
Impact on battery life?
@Lady Kaede: do you ask the impact of battery life with all apps? Because this is just an app you run whenever you want to see a dashboard. So it is no different than any other program that happens to have a lot of graphical elements.
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