Dashboard to replace Sherlock?
MacMinute has an article about Dashboard replacing Sherlock eventually. Dashboard is the widget system that Apple is implementing in Tiger and Sherlock is the current application that grabs information from the web and presents in a nicer fashion. This whole idea makes sense, many of the functions of Sherlock can be replaced by Dashboard. Basically, what people are using Sherlock for are:
- Weather
- Stocks
- Movie Listings
Here in this nice little development for Dashboard, it explains further about how the functionality can be duplicated in even a nicer fashion. Personally, developing a Widget from HTML and CSS is personally easier for me than using whatever Sherlock may use.
Dashboard also is better than Sherlock in many ways because it also includes little desk accessories like a calculator and a note pad for holding information, whereas Sherlock was an interface for receiving information from the internet. It does seem likely that Sherlock may be fading fast.
One thing that some may be forgetting is that Sherlock was , for the most part, a stolen idea from Watson (which is now bust) and that Dashboard is a stolen idea from Konfabulator (which is now migrating to Windows users). (Now, whether or not you believe they were stolen or Apple had original stake on those areas is another thing, but there is no doubt that Apple's development were pivotal in the future of those two third-party products). Just a thought.