28 March 2008
Beggining in Widgets
Posted by Ricardo Seiji under: Uncategorized .
“A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets including: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.”
Widgets can be powerfull branding tools. Like Linkin Park, shows here:
Different kinds off functionalities and customizations are been created, like in Apple Dashboard Leopard:
Widgets are going mobile. S60 Web-run is one of this technologies. Here is a presentation showing more details.
And some theory foundations: http://www.slideshare.net/silvertje/the-widgetized-self-in-the-blogosphere/
- Web widget in Wikipedia
- Widget engine in Wikipedia
- Widget 1.0 in W3C
- Widget Box
- Yahoo! Widgets
- Opera Widgets
- Konfabulator
- Apple Dashboard Widgets
- Widgets Lab
- Netvibes Ecosystem
- Yourminis
