Opera has become heavily involved in the development of standards for widgets — the lightweight, web-based applications that are starting to become prevalent on new handsets.

2015 promises to be a breakthrough year for the web. The next version of JavaScript, ES6, is due to be published in June, the first full release in four years. Along the way, browsers have gotten ...

The OpenAjax Alliance taps its broad industry membership to deliver standards for metadata integration, mashup security and widget interoperability. The organization tapped leading members such as ...

Opera has issued a new beta release of Opera Mobile 9.5, the first release that runs on the Symbian UIQ platform in addition to Windows Mobile. The new version includes support for Opera's widget ...

Clearspring Technologies Inc. Monday announced the release of Launchpad, a set of tools that will let developers convert Web sites to widgets that can be posted on social networks, blogs or other ...

When I talk about 'widgets' I'm just trying to find a short way of saying something like "chunks of HTML of any size supported by CSS (and possibly JavaScript) strategically inserted into a web ...

Each widget can be embedded on a website or placed on a desktop. ... They’ve also released a sofware development kit to allow developers to build their own widgets on the platform.

Nokia is taking steps to spur the adoption of services that let subscribers watch TV or surf the Web on mobile devices. On Monday, Nokia said it plans to work with fellow handset maker Samsung to ...

Microsoft is heavily advocating the development and use of PWAs or Progressive Web Apps to supplement its lack of UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps.

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Nokia is ...