Comparison of widget engines

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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.

General

Engine Creator Current Version License Status
Template:Rh | Adobe AIR Adobe Systems 1.5 Proprietary Discontinued
Template:Rh | AveDesk Andreas Verhoeven 1.3 Proprietary Abandoned
Template:Rh | Dashboard Apple Inc. Template:LSR Proprietary Retired
Template:Rh | DesktopX Stardock 3.5 Proprietary Abandoned
Template:Rh2 | gDesklets Martin Grimme and Christian Meyer 0.36 GPL Abandoned
Template:Rh | Google Desktop Gadgets Google 5.0.0701.18382 Proprietary Discontinued
Template:Rh2 | Kapsules Andrew Powell 0.9.9 Proprietary Abandoned
Template:Rh | KlipFolio Serence 5.0D Proprietary Active and supported
Template:Rh | Microsoft Gadgets Microsoft ? Proprietary Discontinued
Template:Rh | NetFront Access Co. Ltd. 4.2 Proprietary Discontinued
Template:Rh | Netvibes Netvibes 1.0 Proprietary Active and supported
Template:Rh | Opera Opera Software Template:LSR


Proprietary Discontinued
Template:Rh | Plasma KDE (Aaron Seigo, main developer) Template:Latest stable software release/KDE Software Compilation 4 GPL Active and Supported
Template:Rh | Rainmeter Kimmo 'Rainy' Pekkola Template:Latest stable software release/Rainmeter GPL Active and Supported
Template:Rh | Screenlets Rico Pfaus (AKA RYX) 0.1.5 GPL Abandoned
Template:Rh | Serious Samurize Gustaf & Oscar Lundh 1.64 Proprietary Abandoned
Template:Rh | SuperKaramba Hans Karlsson 0.39 GPL Abandoned
Template:Rh | WebKit Apple Inc. ? BSD+LGPL Active and supported
Template:Rh | WidSets Nokia ? Proprietary Discontinued
Template:Rh2 | Yahoo! Widgets Ed Voas, Michael Galloway, and Sam Magnuson Template:R 4.5.2 Proprietary Discontinued
Engine Creator Current Version License Status

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Operating system support

Engine Mac OS X Windows NT5 (XP) Windows NT6 (Vista, 7/8/10+) Linux Android
Template:Rh | Adobe AIR Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Template:Rh | AveDesk No Yes Yes No ?
Template:Rh | Dashboard YesTemplate:R No No No ?
Template:Rh | DesktopX No Yes Yes No ?
Template:Rh | gDesklets NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R Yes ?
Template:Rh | Google Desktop Gadgets Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Template:Rh2 | Kapsules No Yes ? No ?
Template:Rh | KlipFolio No Yes Yes No ?
Template:Rh | Microsoft Gadgets No No Yes No ?
Template:Rh | NetFront NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R ?
Template:Rh | Netvibes Dashboard bridge Using browser Using browser Using browser ?
Template:Rh | Opera Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Template:Rh | Plasma Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Template:Rh | Rainmeter No No Yes No No
Template:Rh | Screenlets No No No Yes ?
Template:Rh | Serious Samurize No Yes YesTemplate:R No ?
Template:Rh | SuperKaramba No No No Yes ?
Template:Rh | WebKit ? ? ? ? ?
Template:Rh | WidSets NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R NoTemplate:R ?
Template:Rh | Yahoo! Widgets No Yes Yes No No
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Technical

Languages

Which programming languages the engines support. Most engines rely upon interpreted languages.

Engine HTML XHTML CSS XML JavaScript Perl Python Ruby C++ Executable VBScript
Template:Rh | Adobe AIRTemplate:R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ?
Template:Rh | AveDeskTemplate:R No No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes ? ?
Template:Rh | Dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesTemplate:R YesTemplate:R ?
Template:Rh | DesktopX Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
Template:Rh | gDesklets No No No Yes No No Yes No No No ?
Template:Rh | Google Desktop Gadgets ? ? ? Yes Yes No No No No Yes ?
Template:Rh2 | KapsulesTemplate:R ? ? ? ? No Yes Yes No ? ? Yes
Template:Rh | KlipFolio No No YesTemplate:R Yes Yes No No No No No ?
Template:Rh | Microsoft Gadgets Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes (as ActiveX) Yes Yes
Template:Rh | NetFrontTemplate:R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No ?
Template:Rh | Netvibes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No ?
Template:Rh | OperaTemplate:R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No ?
Template:Rh | Plasma Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Template:Rh | Rainmeter No No No No No No No No No No No
Template:Rh | Screenlets Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes No ? ? ?
Template:Rh | Serious SamurizeTemplate:RTemplate:R No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Template:Rh | SuperKaramba ? ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Template:Rh | WebKit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes ? ?
Template:Rh | WidSets ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Template:Rh | Yahoo! WidgetsTemplate:R Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No NoTemplate:R No
Engine HTML XHTML CSS XML JavaScript Perl Python Ruby C++ Executable VBScript

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Formats and Development

Engine IDE Widget Container Widget MIME Type
Template:Rh | Adobe AIR Flex Builder 3, Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4 ZIP application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip
Template:Rh | AveDesk AveScripter ZIP ?
Template:Rh | Dashboard Dashcode ZIP application/x-macbinary
Template:Rh | DesktopX Desktop X Pro EXE ?
Template:Rh | gDesklets No Tar.gz ?
Template:Rh | Google Desktop Gadgets Google Desktop Gadget Designer ZIP app/gg
Template:Rh2 | Kapsules ? ZIP ?
Template:Rh | KlipFolio No Proprietary XML Format ?
Template:Rh | Microsoft Gadgets NoTemplate:R ZIP application/x-windows-gadget
Template:Rh | NetFront No ZIP application/x-opera-widgets
Template:Rh | Netvibes No Online ?
Template:Rh | Opera Opera Dragonfly ZIP application/x-opera-widgets
Template:Rh | Plasma No ZIP, with plasmoid as extension instead of zip ?
Template:Rh | Rainmeter No ZIP, with rmskin as extension instead of zip application/vnd.rainmeter.SkinInstaller
Template:Rh | Screenlets No Tar.gz ?
Template:Rh | Serious Samurize Serious Samurize Config Editor ZIP ?
Template:Rh | SuperKaramba No Tar.gz ?
Template:Rh | WebKit No ? ?
Template:Rh | WidSets ? ? ?
Template:Rh | Yahoo! Widgets NoTemplate:R Proprietary Format, ZIP application/vnd.yahoo.Widget
Engine IDE Widget Container Widget MIME Type

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Development Tools

As widgets are largely combinations of HTML or XHTML, CSS, and Javascript in most cases, standard AJAX tools, such as Eclipse ATF, can be used for development. Specialized tools may give access to additional capabilities supplied by frameworks such as Dojo or Openrico.

References

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