{"id":2597736,"date":"2009-04-02T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/segue.middlebury.edu\/view\/html\/node\/2597736"},"modified":"2012-07-29T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:50:24","slug":"what-is-a-widget","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/overview\/what-is-a-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Widget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What is a Widget?<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style='float: right;margin-top: 12px'>\n\t\t<img src='https:\/\/segue.middlebury.edu\/\/images\/downarrow.gif' align='top' width='15' height='15' alt='download' \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/files\/2009\/04\/01%20What%20is%20a%20Widget_.mp3'><strong>Download<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<span style='font-size: 90%'>(23.10 MB)<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<div style='float: left'>\n\t[audio:http:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/files\/2009\/04\/01%20What%20is%20a%20Widget_.mp3]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear: both;margin-bottom: 6px'>Alex Chapin. &#8220;What is a Widget?&#8221; <em>Nercomp 2009: Widgets in Education<\/em>.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='margin-top: 10px'>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span>20:04<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>What is a Widget?<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>more specifically, &quot;web widget&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">&quot;a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HTML\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">HTML<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">-based web page by an end user without requiring additional <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compiler\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">compilation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium\">.&quot;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">Wikipedia, 18 March, 2008, 12:25:00<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">-encapsulated data and\/or functionality embedded in one application\/platform\/location from another<\/p>\n<p>Also known as:<br \/>\ngadget, badge, module, plugin, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini, flake<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Types of &#8220;Web&#8221; Widgets<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 1.5em\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">RSS Container<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Embedded video\/maps (e.g. YouTube, Google Maps)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Configurable functionality (e.g. Google Translate)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Filtered\/selected data (e.g. Delicious Tags)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Authorization controlled data (e.g. email inbox)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Read\/write data (e.g. PollDaddy<\/span>)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Social data (e.g. Facebook apps)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Inside Out Widgets<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>YouTube &#8220;Widget&#8221;<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">This YouTube video is embedded in this content block by means of a &quot;text-template.&quot;&nbsp; Essentially, this application searches for &lt;embed src&gt; tags that reference YouTube videos and then replaces that embedded source code with a &quot;template&quot; that this application understands<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube TRBJZ1kpYI4 425  344]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Widget? Download (23.10 MB) [audio:http:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/files\/2009\/04\/01%20What%20is%20a%20Widget_.mp3] Alex Chapin. &#8220;What is a Widget?&#8221; Nercomp 2009: Widgets in Education. 20:04 What is a Widget? more specifically, &quot;web widget&quot;&#8230; &quot;a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/overview\/what-is-a-widget\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":2597209,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2597736","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200002666134,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597736\/revisions\/200002666134"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2597209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/widgets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}