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Microsoft has gotten into the Widget/Gadget DHTML component game.

We have the players:

• Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator)
• Apple Dashboard
• Microsoft Gadgets

You want to write a cool dhtml widget for your desktop, what do you choose? Partly it will depend on your OS of course, but what about cross platform via Yahoo! Widgets?

Imagine if we had ONE standard, so you could write one widget that worked in all docks and platforms?

Sure, this would mean that you couldn't tie into the OS specific side of things...