Solar System dashboard widget UNSAFE?

Hi, never had such a problem before but the SolarSystem dashboard widget displays this message:
'the downloaded composition is unsafe and cannot be run inside WebKit'
and does not display any more content.
Could it be something to do with it being a quartz composer composition?
Please could this be remedied.
H

I thought it strange also, but Apple isn't really pushing Tiger for a few years now!
I went to the trouble of enabling Dashboard & downloading the huge thing on Dial-up... same exact result as you on 10.4.11

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hi,
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-- faddah yuetsu wolf
portland, oregon
[email protected]

Hi
i don't mean to be a noodge, but 4 days ago i posted
a simple request asking if i could get support here
for some questions i had as regards some snags i ran
into making dashboard widgets. while other people's
questions about ruby/rails, c and objective c and
even powerpoint (shouldn't that be in a microsquish
support forum??) have been responded to.
You shouldn't take the lack of response as a personal insult The nature of these forums (fora?) is that people respond to those messages where they can help and don't respond when they can't help. FWIW I've got two unresolved questions dating back to Mar 17th!
In my opinion, the Developer forums would be absolutely ideal and on-topic places to discuss Widget development..... but it looks like very few experienced Widget developers hang out here, so any questions would most likely go unanswered. My own skill area in limited to Java so I can't help out with widgets. No doubt the other forum regulars are in a similar position.
Bob

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i posted this 4 days ago to the "Software Development 101" board here on apple support. absolutely no response. 7 people viewed it, none responded.
it's just a very simple question - can i get help here or could someone please point me towards support boards, on apple or third party, which can help me out with some snags i've run into in creating dashboard widgets? that's all, really.
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hi,
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i'm trying to make a simple widget that uses the real audio plug-in in the system (if you downloaded real player) to play a local portland, oregon fm classical radio station, kbps-fm 89.9 (www.allclassical.org).
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-- faddah yuetsu wolf
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[email protected]

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AC Charger Information:
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Hi Frank, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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-mj
[email protected]

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in my clock there is no i nor sydney.
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