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June 30th, 2004 | Published in Blogroll, Code Development
…what the widgets actually are written in. They are Web pages, plain and simple (with extra features thrown in for added measure). Apple’s own web site says “build your own widgets using the JavaScript language”, but that’s sort of misleading. The widgets are HTML+CSS+JS. They are not some JS-only thing. In other words, each widget is just a web page, and so you have the full power of WebKit behind each one… CSS2, DOM2, JS, HTML, XMLHttpRequest, Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc. I’ll have a lot more to say later on, but I thought it important to clear that up right up front, since a lot of people were asking me about it in email and such.”
There is a lot more differences that the Konfabulator clan are missing and could learn from…
(Via Confessions of a Mozillian.)
