Dashboard widgets do not require Tiger!!

[Oats]

A friend of mine reported to me that certain dashboard widgets will run on OS 10.3, and perhaps earlier versions! Since they are mainly JAVA+HTML, I guess that is not too surprising.

Can anyone confirm this with other widgets? My friend downloaded the color picker and it worked fine:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/picker.html

 

[starnox]

Some of the more basic widgets will run in Safari, since its just javascript, css etc.

 

[JeDiBoYTJ]

yeah... some seem to work

 

[grapes911]

This has been known for weeks.

 

[mkrishnan]

This has been known for weeks.

The version of Safari in 10.3.9 even made a specific change (transparent window option) that was designed to make developing/testing widgets in it easier. 🙂