Yahoo! Widgets
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Yahoo Widgets is a discontinued free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, specifically Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. The software was previously called Konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer services company Yahoo on July 25, 2005, it was rebranded.[2][3] The name Konfabulator was subsequently reinstated as the name of the underlying rendering engine. The engine uses a JavaScript runtime environment combined with an XML interpreter to run small applications referred to as widgets, and hence is part of a class of software applications called widget engines. On February 27, 2012, Yahoo updated the License agreement stating that as of April 3, 2012 Yahoo! Widgets will continue to be available for download but support and development would stop.[4]
Developer(s) | Yahoo Widgets Team |
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Initial release | February 10, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-02-10) (as Konfabulator) July 25, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-07-25) (as Yahoo! Widgets)[1] |
Final release | 4.5.2.0
/ June 25, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-06-25) |
Operating system | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Win 7 |
Type | Widget engine |
License | Modified BSD Licence (See the EULA in the app) |
Website | http://www.widgets.yahoo.com (Archived on February 8, 2012) |