Maybe you have a small screen and don't want that battery monitor taking up menu bar real estate. Maybe you just don't want it in the menu bar for another reason. Who knows why. The point is that just because you like something to be one way, doesn't mean everyone wants it to be that way. So why don't you just get past that two-year-old "im the center of the universe" crap, and realize that this widget has it's audience, and you aren't in it, and that doesn't mean flame the developer, that means shut your mouth.

If you ask any *real* developer, he/she could rattle of instance after instance that they added a feature that users requested, even though they didn't see the need for the feature. Obviously there's a market for a battery widget, hell, they have em for konfabulator. Leave the guy alone and let him do what he wants with his time.

Also, i believe the point of dashboard is that anyone can make a widget. In fact, apple touts this as a positive. So he knows a bit of javascript and html and css and created a battery monitor. Thats the friggen point of dashboard. Its EASY to create a simple widget. This is a GOOD thing.

Hear hear.

If I'd write comments to any app I don't need, I'd write for years... - so what's the purpose of your comment?

i apologise unreservedly for my earlier comment. having read the above replies i now realise that 'batterystatus widget' is the finest app ever created. i look forward to more groundbreaking and vitally useful widgets, from this and other developers.

i would also like to apologise if my original comment somehow implied that anyone out there would ever throw together a pointless app just for the sake of getting their name 'up in lights' on versiontracker or macupdate. i now realise that every widget, every notepad replacement, every text editor and every "thing that goes in the dock and tells you something you already knew" out there is a worthy and honourable programming feat, serving only to fill a genuine need of the mac community.


[shakes head sadly in disbelief]