What is a widget?

June 22nd, 2007 General financial widget

Widget is a piece of code or software that can be integrated with/plugged into the widget platform easily to provide extra function(s). Of course it is not surprising software can be extended. However the main advantage of widget is ease of integration. Currently there is two main categories of widgets : desktop widget and web widget. Technically most of web widgets are developed using Javascript or embedded browser plugins. You can find examples of web widget at Widgetbox.

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