Yahoo! Widgets Engine 3.1 available

Earlier this week, Yahoo! released version 3.1 of the Yahoo! Widgets Engine (formerly Konfabulator). As you may remember, Konfabulator (which was purchased by Yahoo! in December of last year) was the first application to bring "widgets" to our Macs. Changes in version 3.1 include:

• Added support for a new flat file format for Widgets which permits signing or Widget code to enhance security.

• Added preference to control whether or not the Widget Engine automatically starts up when your system starts.

• Implemented importNode() from the Level 2 DOM spec.

There's more, of course, and you can get the full run-down here. Yahoo! Widgets Engine (gee, that's cumbersome to type over and over) requires Mac OS 10.3 and is free.