Orchestrating a standard for widgets

I found an interesting argument on behalf of creating a standard for the diverse sets of widgets/gadgets proliferating throughout the web, desktop and mobiles today.

Opera has recently joined the fray by proposing a widget standard to the W3C Forum.

“We don’t need 10 different widget standards,” said von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera. “Ours is very open. It’s not tied to the operating system or anything else. It will run across devices and across operating systems from day one.”

Here’s the full article on EETimes.com written by Junko Yoshida.