Dashboard widget

Step 1:Wait until you can legally obtain a copy of Tiger.
Step 2:Apple has some and will have more Dashboard Widget documentation up on their developers website.

 

What kind of widget do you want to creat?

 

however it is possible to "create" widgets now within Panther ding dong. that was a pretty rude response so... you get one right back.

Also as stated, knowing JavaScript, HTML, CSS are a good start. Some advanced stuff may require you know Cocoa and Flash. Also Apple has some documentation up on how to start developing widgets without Tiger. I think that link was already posted.

 

actually you can. widgets use WebKit.. which is what safari uses.. you can create them and test them in safari since it's pretty much exactly what you'll get.. dashboard has a few extras in it that allow it to display a "webpage" without the "webpage"... so yes, you can create widgets without tiger. you can even test them .. you can't technically "use" them the way you will in tiger but it does work regardless of whether you have tiger or not.

EDIT: i guess i should note that you guys are thinking of this differently than me it seems. there are parts that are missing and not available in safari in panther.. but that doesn't mean you can't do a very large majority of the work now and then finish the rest when tiger comes out. there's also certain functions and such that are not available, such as using cocoa within a widget... however nearly anything you create is technically going to be a webpage... so quite a few widgets will work (as long as they aren't complicated and require functions not available) without tiger.. you just seem to forget that a widget is in it's truest form a webpage shown in a different way.

for more info go below and search for "dashboard"
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/index.html

 

New Site

Check Out : http://www.dashboarddev.com/

 

http://www.thedashboarder.com/

and from their FAQ