WidgetImplementation

NOTE: This document is no longer maintained because the Web Applications Working Group was closed in October 2015 and its deliverables transferred to the Web Platform Working Group.

This document includes Implementation data regarding the W3C's Widgets Family of Specifications.

Disclaimers regarding the data in this document:

• The contents of this document are subject to change without warning.

• Neither the W3C nor the Web Applications Working Group has verified the data in this document.

• Implementations cited in this document may or may not implement the latest version of the related specification.

Please send reports of other implementations, corrections, and related information to public-webapps@w3.org.

See Also ...

• Widgets Publication Status
• Widgets Testing Wiki

Widget Packaging and XML Configuration (P&C)

Resources: P&C Test Suite and P&C Implementation Report.

Implementation data:

• Wookie; Apache Incubator Project

• widgeon; "A W3C Widgets implementation using XULRunner"

• LG; The LG Mobile Widgets solution is based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Widgets 1.0 specifications

• Microsoft; Windows Mobile 6.5

• Research in Motion (RIM); BlackBerry Widget SDK

• Samsung; uses ACCESS NetFront Widgets that are "based on open, standard W3C Widget 1.0 specifications"

• Oregan Networks; "Implemented as per W3C Widgets 1.0 specification, represents a client-side web application for displaying and updating data."

• GPAC by Telecom ParisTech; MPEG-U; "a conformant MPEG Widget is by default a W3C conformant widget and that a conformant MPEG Widget Manager is a fully compliant W3C Widget User Agent."

• Bitstream BOLT 1.7; BOLT users can discover, select and install specific Web apps through a BOLT Widget Gallery. BOLT’s widgets are written as standard W3C widgets (www.w3.org/TR/widgets/), a standard with broad industry support.

• Aplix Android Widget runtime

• Nokia Qt Web Runtime; for N900 (Work in Progress)

• Obigo Widget Runtime; supports W3C Widgets

• Opera Widgets; the basis for creating the W3C Widget specs.

• Opera Unite; offline web applications in the browser (with additional Unite APIs and functionality).

• Opera Extensions; built on the W3C Widget specs (with additional extension APIs and functionality)

• PhoneGap; see related article by Scott Wilson

Digital Signatures for Widgets

Implementation data:

• See Andreas Kühne's announcement (Trustable Ltd) on 21-Oct-2009 and 12-Feb-2010 followup

• BONDI SDK - a LiMo Foundation project

The Widget Interface (TWI)

See TWI Test Suite and TWI Implementation Report.

Implementation information:

• Wookie; Apache Incubator Project

• Opera Widgets

Widget Access Request Policy (WARP)

A Candidate Recommendation of the WARP spec was published 20-Apr-2010. See WARP Test Suite and WARP Implementation Report.

Implementation data:

• Apache's Wookie Incubator; first reported by Scott Wilson on 5-March-2010

• RIM's BlackBerry Widget SDK includes support for the WARP spec. See How to Secure your BlackBerry widget

Widget Updates

• Opera Extensions;