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December 17, 2007
It's called a ".5" release, but there's so much new developer candy in Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 that it sure looks like 5.0. Core Widgets developer Ed Voas takes us on a tour of the major new features in his recent blog post.
Ed points out that Widgets now has WebKit in the Widget Engine so that Widgets can be composed of HTML -- great for re-purposing those AJAX apps. Native support for playing Adobe Flash SWF files is now built-in using the ActiveX Control (Windows) and NPAPI (MacOSX) so you can run your existing Flash apps under the control of the Widget Engine. Full DOM support, a new JavaScript interpreter, and a debugger round out some of the significant new features.
Download the SDK (Windows only) or just get the individual docs and tools (MacOSX or Windows) here and start building.
Jason Levitt
Posted at December 17, 2007 10:32 AM
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