Kapsules
Kapsules was a freeware desktop widget engine for Windows. It made use of the Windows Scripting Technology, allowing widget designers to use any scripting language that has an ActiveScript engine. Those widgets were then made available on Kapsules' website. As of December 2005[update], widgets were available in eight different scripting languages. Kapsules was reliant on the .NET Framework. All versions of Kapsules before and including version 0.9.9.0 had targeted version 1.1 of .NET, and all later versions targeted version 2.0.
As mentioned above, widgets could be written in any language for which there was an ActiveScript engine. Kapsules also supported .NET scripting languages. This flexibility allowed widget designers to use and interface with a much larger codebase, enabling them to interface with a wider variety of existing software components. Widgets were written in Python, PHP, JScript, JScript.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, Ruby and Perl.
Kapsules was inspired by Arlo Rose and Perry Clarke's Konfabulator (which had recently been purchased by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Widgets). Both were widget engines with very similar functionality. Konfabulator was originally written for Mac OS X and later ported to the Windows environment, while Kapsules was designed to use integral components of Windows. By using a managed framework, Kapsules let designers choose from one of several scripting languages, while Konfabulator widgets were written exclusively in JavaScript. Also, Kapsules could be installed on a Windows guest account, whereas Konfabulator required Administrator privileges.
On or around 9 November 2006, the Kapsules website was updated with a single page stating that the site had been hacked. It also said that the developers were "busy" working on an updated version of the application and the website. No updates have been made since the announcement. The project website and its domain have since been abandoned.
Kapsules authors
Andrew Powell
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