The origin of Widgets

This idea of widget comes from an Apple Computer engineer named Rose. One day in, rose suddenly wondered how to play a skin-changing MP3 player on her Apple OS desktop: if all the tools running on my desktop can change the skin or appearance, it would be a cool thing. Rose's excitement is overwhelming, it gave this cool stuff the name "konfabulator ".
What are the features of widgets?
1. tiny body: they are usually very small, so it is very convenient to embed them on the terminal and they run fast.
2. Multiple forms: widgets can be displayed in multiple forms, such as slides, videos, maps, news, and games ......
3. Huge functions: although they are small, they are considerate. They can report news for you, help you buy things, list your favorite bands, and videos you 've watched recently. In addition, it is a diligent Butler. You do not have to go to the Flickr or weather forecast website yourself. widgets will take the initiative to bring you information.
4. zirongli: they can be called the yunji Flying Dragon and the color of the person. As long as you want, you can turn it into anything you want. Its appearance is no different from a "desktop bomb". The narrow and monotonous ie window will be replaced by a broader and brilliant desktop space.
5. PERSONALIZATION: widgets are more like a cube belonging to each of us and can be aggregated by users. You can combine Multiple widgets to assemble your online world as you like. Through widgets, users can disrupt all content in the "network" and re-arrange and combine their own Internet according to what they want to see. For example, a personal space built by microservices can include sports news from Sina and Forum sections, A stock information that is updated at any time on an authoritative financial website-the information that previously required users to access several websites at the same time, now, microservices are transformed into a part of the user's personal space, so that they can coexist directly on the same page. Traditional Internet access methods are in the post-web era. Diversity, cool and more personalized Widgets may lead a new trend.
6. easy to make: it is not complicated to make Widgets. You only need to be familiar with three aspects: image processing, HTML/XML, and Java. You can make beautiful components according to the tutorials on the development site. One of the key points to the popularity of widgets is open production, which leads to explosive growth of UGC applications.