interesting post about widgets and mashups.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=106

Looks like the time of the “standardised widget” is slowly coming, with the W3C spec http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-reqs/ . Let’s hope platforms developers soon agree on  a common format. This will not only have an impact on the widget world but on all client side developments, as it will be a kind of application level HTTP ORB…