Monday, February 6, 2006

Opera supports widgets

Opera Software on Tuesday plans to release a second preview version of Opera 9, the next version of its namesake Web browser. For the first time, the new version will include <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6035227.html?tag=zdnn.alert">support for so-called widgets,</A> Opera representative Thomas Ford said. Widgets are essentially small browser windows that display information taken from the Internet on a user's desktop. The notion is similar in concept to the widget idea that Apple Computer uses in the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X.

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