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Welcome to Widget Standards!
This wiki is dedicated to the formation and maintenance of a set of wide ranging widget standards and best practices, including standards for widget design, widget coding, widget metrics, distribution, advertising and legal and ethical issues. Although there are billions of widgets on the web today, there are still too many unanswered questions that have led to an under-appreciation of the worth of widgets and a chaotic and non-standardized way of creating, distributing, tracking and monetizing widgets. There are other sites and organizations that are proposing or have proposed some level of widget standards (including the w3c and the WAA). This wiki encourages you to visit these and other widget standards related sites, and to reference them here. However, to date, there is no definitive source widget standards, and as such, this wiki will give a best effort to attempt to fill the need for a widget standard.
Who should use this wiki?
Widget Standards Wiki is a free to use and edit resource for anyone interested in widgets including:
- Widget developers
- Widget distribution services
- Content owners that want to package their content in widgets
- Advertisers that want to use widgets to promote their products and services
- Website owners, bloggers and users that want to add widgets to their social network profile pages
Moving towards a widget standard
This site has two purposes. First, for those familiar with the workings of what makes widgets work to add their knowledge and educated opinions about widgets (bu not to promote any particular widgets unless as examples of best practices and standards). Second, this wiki will hopefully become a resource for everyone that either wishes to build, distribute, acquire and/or monetize widgets and are looking towards a widget standard as a starting point.
Our collective widget knowledge
This wiki runs on MediaWiki (which powers Wikipedia), making it by far the most familiar wiki interface. This wiki will run as a dialog to move towards universal widget standards and perhaps even a validation system if the community deems these to be beneficial. If you wish, you may follow the links below to start, or you may use the search feature above to either find existing articles or to add new articles. Also, if you create a new article it would be helpful if you would place a link down at the bottom of this page so that others can easily reference it.
Widget Standard Articles
Widget Design Standards Widget Coding Standards Widget Metrics Standards Widget Distribution Standards Widget Ethical Standards Widget Monetization Standards Widget Serving Standards Widget Advertising Standards
