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Widgets often take the form of on-screen device (clocks, event countdowns, auction-tickers, stock market tickers, flight arrival information, daily weather etc.). [ edit ] Widget A widget is a stand-alone application that can be embedded into third party sites by any user on a page where they have rights of authorship (e.g. a webpage, blog, or profile on a social media site). Widgets allow users to turn personal content into dynamic web apps that can be shared on websites where the code can be installed. For example, a "Weather Report Widget" could report today's weather by accessing data from the Weather Channel, it could even be sponsored by the Weather Channel.
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Example of enabled and disabled widgets; the frame at the bottom is disabled. In computer programming, a widget (or control ) is an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a window or a text box . The defining characteristic of a widget is to provide a single interaction point for the direct manipulation of a given kind of data. In other words, widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data. [ edit ] History and use A family of common reusable widgets has evolved for holding general information based on the Palo Alto Research Center Inc. research for the Xerox Alto User Interface.
NEW VERSION 1.0.2 - This Steampunk Weather Widget is based on the Digistation widget written by: Bogdan Irimia, enhanced and steampunked by Dean Beedell with kind permission of Bogdan. Displays local … More
Yahoo! Widgets: useful, fun, beautiful little apps for Mac and Windows