What is a Widget?
[audio:https://segueproject.org/widgets/files/2009/04/01%20What%20is%20a%20Widget_.mp3]
Alex Chapin. “What is a Widget?” Nercomp 2009: Widgets in Education.
20:04
What is a Widget?
more specifically, "web widget"…
"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."
Wikipedia, 18 March, 2008, 12:25:00
-encapsulated data and/or functionality embedded in one application/platform/location from another
Also known as:
gadget, badge, module, plugin, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini, flake
Types of “Web” Widgets
- RSS Container
- Embedded video/maps (e.g. YouTube, Google Maps)
- Configurable functionality (e.g. Google Translate)
- Filtered/selected data (e.g. Delicious Tags)
- Authorization controlled data (e.g. email inbox)
- Read/write data (e.g. PollDaddy)
- Social data (e.g. Facebook apps)
- Inside Out Widgets
YouTube “Widget”
This YouTube video is embedded in this content block by means of a "text-template." Essentially, this application searches for <embed src> tags that reference YouTube videos and then replaces that embedded source code with a "template" that this application understands
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