Comparison of widget engines
Engine IDE Widget Container Widget MIME Type
Adobe AIR Flex Builder 3 , Flash CS4 , Dreamweaver CS4 ZIP application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip
AveDesk AveScripter ZIP ?
Dashboard Dashcode ZIP application/x-macbinary
DesktopX Desktop X Pro EXE ?
gDesklets No Tar.gz ?
Google Desktop Gadgets Google Desktop Gadget Designer ZIP app/gg
Kapsules ? ZIP ?
KlipFolio No Proprietary XML Format ?
Microsoft Gadgets No ZIP application/x-windows-gadget
NetFront No ZIP application/x-opera-widgets
Netvibes No Online ?
Opera Opera Dragonfly ZIP application/x-opera-widgets
Plasma No ZIP , with plasmoid as extension instead of zip ?
Screenlets No Tar.gz ?
Serious Samurize Serious Samurize Config Editor ZIP ?
SuperKaramba No Tar.gz ?
WebKit No ? ?
WidSets ? ? ?
Yahoo ! Widgets No Proprietary Format , ZIP application/vnd.yahoo.Widget
Engine IDE Widget Container Widget MIME Type
Technical -- Formats and Development
This is a comparison of widget engines. This article is not about widget toolkits that are used in computer programming to build graphical user interfaces.