miércoles, 9 de enero de 2008

Mobile Widget defined - Qué es un widget?


What is a mobile widget?

A widget is a small application fairly easy to develop that does one simple thing and can be combined together.
To run a Widget, you need a “Widget Engine”, which is the framework needed to run these micro applications. On the PC, the most popular is Konfabulator, and Dashboard on Mac OS-X. Web applications haves also their own widget, that can run within the browser, like clock, web counter, etc….These applications exists since a long time, it was called previously plugins, components, extensions, gadgets, but the real innovation is that it’s now in user hands: they can combine these widgets to create their own unique application.
This approach fits particularly well on mobile world, where space on screen is limited, and where it’s not easy to switch between applications. Some companies like Widsets, Bluepulse, mFoundry, Bling and Opera have developed some widget engines. Not all of them haves the same approach, even if all of them recognize the filiations with Widget. Most of them are for the moment personal news /RSS reader (Widset) but extremely well done, others allows some interaction with the user (plusmo, mFoundry, etc…). All of these engines -except Opera widget - are for now available on top of J2me.

Qué es un widget?
Un widget es una pequeña aplicación relativamente fácil de desarrollar que hace sólo una tarea específica y puede combinarse con otros widgets para actuar en conjunto. Para ejecutar un widget necesitas un entorno, motor o "Widget Engine". Para PC el más popular es Konfabulator y bajo Mac OS-X es Dashboard. Este enfoque es particularmente apropiado para el mundo móvil, donde el espacio en la pantalla es limitado y no es fácil pasar de una aplicación a otra. Algunas compañias como Widsets, Bluepulse, mFoundry, Bling y Opera han desarrollado algunos motores para widgets.
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