Screenlets is the name of both a set of independently developed widget applications and the

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which runs them. The engine runs primarily on X11-based

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s, most notably with

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Development

Until 0.0.14, screenlets were exclusively scripted in

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and drawn in SVG. Afterward, support was added for

web widget A web widget is a web page or web application that is embedded as an element of a host web page but which is substantially independent of the host page, having limited or no interaction with the host. A web widget commonly provides users of the ...

s (widgets which are written in

HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...

JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of Website, websites use JavaScript on the Client (computing), client side ...

and

CSS Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone techno ...

, similar to widgets for

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). The engine also supports

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.Google Gadgets now run on Screenlets engine
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References

External links

Screenlets Forum

List of 10 Best Screenlets
{{Widget engine Widget engines

Development

See also

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