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sponsored content, which can pay for the cost of the development when the widgets' utility maps to the user's needs in a way where both parties gain. For example, a sports news brand might gain awareness and increased audience share in exchange for the utility of current game scores being instantly and dynamically available - the blog which posted the Sports score widget might gain in having a stickier site.
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Widget management systems offer a method of managing widgets that works on any web page, such as a blog or social networking home page. Many blog systems come with built-in widget management systems as plug-ins. Users can obtain widgets and other widget management tools from various widget companies.
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Web widgets are complex UI controls. WAI-ARIA is a technology that can improve the Usability and Accessibility of such widgets by adding in further semantics that browsers and assistive technologies can recognize and use to facilitate users' interactions. For example, a tabpanel widget must contain a
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that is embedded as an element of a host web page but which is substantially independent of the host page, having limited or no interaction with the host. A web widget commonly provides users of the host page access to resources from another web site, content that the host page may be prevented from
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One important factor with client-side widgets is that often the host can not control the content. The content or the functionality it provides cannot be modified by the host. The content is pre-published by the publisher/author/service provider and the host can either accept that content or not use
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The use of widgets has proven increasingly popular, where users of social media are able to add stand-alone applications to blogs, profiles and community pages. Widgets add utility in the same way that an iPhone application does. The developers of these widgets are often offering them as a form of
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Web widgets can affect page rank in two ways. First, links generated by client-side widgets will not be seen by search engines that do not "run" the widget code before analysing the page. Those links will not contribute to page rank. Second, pages may be penalized for hosting widgets that
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the widget. The host does, however, control the placement of the Widget. Because the host can always take the Widget down, it assures a large degree of mutual advantage and satisfaction with performance and content.
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Widgets: They're those little doo-dads you see on websites, often in the sidebar, that perform one simple function and don't take up much room while they're doing it.
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Widgets may be considered as downloadable applications which look and act like traditional apps but are implemented using web technologies including
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The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES 2011. San Francisco, California, USA, 21–24 November 2011. ACM.
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End users primarily use widgets to enhance their personal web experiences, or the web experiences of visitors to their personal sites.
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specific set of roles (i.e. tablist, tab, tabpanel, etc.) and must follow specific interactions (i.e. keyboard navigation).
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Sites such as FormLoop allow users to easily create widgets from their own content with no coding knowledge necessary.
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such as mobile phone or tablet. In contrast, a web widget is on a personal computer or laptop computer.
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A Mobile Web widget has the same purpose and function as a web widget, but it is made for use on a
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As any program code, widgets can be used for malicious purposes. One example is the
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automatically place links into the page, thereby manipulating page rank.
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exposed either by the browser or by a widget engine such as Akamai,
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The W3C is creating a set of standards for web widgets.
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