Please also post if you encounter problems, notice something wrong, or just find something that could be improved. This widget has been explicitly tested on 10.4 "Tiger", 10.6 "Snow Leopard", 10.9 "Mavericks", and 10.13 "High Sierra", but it should run on Tiger through Mojave.
Previous versions of this widget required you to add your own API keys, but this is no longer necessary-just download and run! (Optional instructions for adding your own key are still included in the download it's a good thing to set up if you have a few minutes to spare.) Then I rewrote it again a few months later to use the Weatherbit API after Apple bought DarkSky, and again after getting frustrated with Weatherbit.
Luckily, the widget is all just editable Javascript code, so I rewrote a portion of the code to use the freely-accessible DarkSky and MapQuest APIs. The Dashboard metaphor worked for widgets before and it could work again, but I’d love to see Apple make the desktop the Dashboard, letting users mix files, folders, and widgets the same way I can mix apps and widgets on my iPhone or iPad.The Weather dashboard widget that ships with Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.14 broke in 2019, when the APIs it uses went offline. Bringing back Dashboard is an obvious solution here, and I’d love to see it make a return. I couldn’t agree more with Stephen’s conclusion:Īpple needs to rethink this and let this new class of widgets breathe, being able to use the entire screen like the widgets of yore could. You can exit also by clicking anywhere other than on a widget. Widgets’ lack of interactivity on the Mac is compounded by the fact that they share a panel with notifications and are hidden behind a click on the menu bar’s clock. To open the Dashboard and access the Mac widgets, you either click the Dashboard icon in the dock or press the F12 key or F4 on the new Apple aluminum keyboard. Dashboard gave users access to Apple and third-party widgets: single-purpose utilities that were a lot like the widgets on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac today, except they were better because they were also interactive. On 512 Pixels, Stephen Hackett argues that Apple should bring back Dashboard, a macOS feature that disappeared with Catalina.
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