#widgets (12 links)
- Building Widgets | Jive Community community.jivesoftware.com
- Fan Box - Facebook Developer Wiki wiki.developers.facebook.com
Info on the new(ish) embeddable Fan Box for Facebook Pages.
If all you're looking for is information access and traditional web type interactions with your users, then your investments will likely be better spent on a slick mobile site that differentiates for high, medium and low end devices. Your in-house web development folks ought to be able to crank something suitable out for you. If you want deeper interaction with the user or device, then you're going to start looking native. Development costs will be higher, timelines will be longer and life cycle management of your application is going to be much more involved, but you will get keystroke level interaction with the user and complete integration with the underlying OS. Widgets (and their engines) fall out somewhere in the middle.
Via dannero.
- QuirksBlog: Introduction to W3C Widgets quirksmode.org
Hadn't realised there was a W3C Widget Spec in the pipeline.
"Brand and comparison advertising done through ad-focused widgets is emerging as a viable way of using the ubiquitous applications. Widgets’ interactive features, their ability to be virally distributed and potentially be placed on a target’s own page
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » The great implementer swindle - making badge use easy doesn’t make it clever! wait-till-i.com · Archived on
"No matter how you’ll turn it – the future of web design will not revolve around pages and sites but around modules." Lots more goodness in this.
Platform 4, best described as the geeky arm of UK TV station Channel 4, has announced a widget contest at the WidgetyGoodness conference in Brighton today.
- jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions ui.jquery.com
A set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
Online and dashboard widget
"Released soon." Underwhelmed.