My favourite dashboard widget, Wimic, broke when I upgraded to Leopard recently. This isn’t so bad at home, because I already have it configured and can still sort of read my comics. As I discovered with my new iMac at work though, it’s a little challenging setting it up for the first time.
Luckily, widgets are just HTML pages under the hood, and a little CSS diddling fixed the problem. So here it is: Wimic updated for Leopard.
The URL format in the Wimic configuration is no longer correct. Looks like dilbert.com has updated and now embeds the strips in flash.
http://www.dilbert.com/fast will yield the comic w/o flash, but figuring out how to map the dates appears to be the next challenge; I also haven’t quite figured out where to change wimic to even begin playing with it (not being this kind of code writer).-kby
I figured out how to fix Dilbert at least for the most part. Unfortunately Leopard actually broke more than just the cosmetics. All strips that required external plugins were broken due to a change in how the javascript engine worked. The version referenced here adds a dilbert plugin to handle their odd new format (at least until it changes again…), fixes the plugin architecture, and automatically chooses the correct CSS based on Tiger or Leopard (default is the Leopard way if it can’t figure it out so newer things are most likely to work but widgets aren’t pre-Tiger at least in their current incarnation anyway). It is also based on the 2.01 code rather than the 2.0 code. It is available at ftp://ftp.caltech.edu/pub/kby/Wimic.wdgt.sit.hqx until I can figure out a better place.-kby
So all the other comics at gocomics.com have followed the Dilbert example and started putting random numbers in their url – any chance of fixing this for other comics too?
Dilbert seems to be broken, and I can’t figure out how to fix it. Any thoughts, please?
Chris