Introduction to W3C Widgets - QuirksBlog - 0 views
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Hendy Irawan on 17 Jul 10"Essentially, a widget is a local HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application. A mobile phone user downloads a widget once, and from that moment on he has a web application stored locally on his mobile phone. Although currently widgets are mostly used for relatively limited functions such as clocks, RSS readers, or Twitter or Flickr clients, as well as for games, there's no theoretical reason why they couldn't contain a complete, complicated, JavaScript-heavy web application; for instance a mobile-optimised spreadsheet application."