Entries tagged 'widgets'

What on earth is it anyways ?
A few years ago nobody knew what widgets were. People, who knew, probably thought of it as a small mechanical device or control. And a widget is also a mechanical device or control but if you use the word "widget" today, you usually mean something else.
Today, widgets are to be found everywhere.
Generally speaking a widget contains a little piece of code, multiple widgets can be combined together in 1 place and they are easy to develop.

To run a widget you'll need an environment or engine to run them in. In the history, widgets came a long way. Look at the below screenshot of the widget workshop from the nineties.

But if you think widgets as we know them today are new. You should think twice.
Desktop widgets have been around for a while.

Here below you can see the desktop widget timeline until today (from nail kennedy his blog).

 
click on the image to see full size.

And here below you can see a picture of the Widget Workshop from 1996.

click on the image to see full size.

The next steps in widgets are no doubt mobile widgets. 
Widgets will truly come to their right on mobile devices. Because with mobile devices you have a small screen and widgets are small. You don't want to type in a lot. Widgets are small specific predefined applications. Always with you, not much typing to do to get the functionality you desire. Just one click to get them up and running. Easy and fast. Widgets are popular today on your desktop device, but they will become far more useful on your mobile device.

When creating widgets, what better way is there than having an open language, a language easy to use, a simple way of getting your content on your phone and everybody else their phone.
Thanks to GLOWE, today these things are possible.
Thanks to GLOWE anyone can become a mobile developer and create great widgets.
Best of all, it's free and open to use by everyone.