The origins of the steam engine

The fascinating pre-history of steam power, illustrated with interactive widgets.

Why the super rich are inevitable

The interactive widgets embedded in this article are excellent teaching tools!

Pizza Exchange Rate | FlowingData

This is a story about pizza and geometry.

The interactive widget here really demonstrates the difference between showing and telling.

Overlay Fact Sheet

Based on the problems with accessiBe and its ilk, I have signed my name to this:

1. We will never advocate, recommend, or integrate an overlay which deceptively markets itself as providing automated compliance with laws or standards.
2. We will always advocate for the remediation of accessibility issues at the source of the original error.
3. We will refuse to stay silent when overlay vendors use deception to market their products.
4. More specifically, we hereby advocate for the removal of accessiBe, AudioEye, UserWay, User1st, MK-Sense, and all similar products and encourage the site owners who’ve implemented these products to use more robust, independent, and permanent strategies to making their sites more accessible.

paulirish/lite-youtube-embed: A faster youtube embed.

A very handy web component from Paul—this works exactly like a regular YouTube embed, but is much more performant.

Rethinking the date picker UI – UX Collective

I quite like this date-picking interface. It would be nice if browsers picked it up for input type="date".

Design Patterns on CodePen

This ever-growing curated collection of interface patterns on CodePen is a reliable source of inspiration.

Quick Reminder that Details/Summary is the Easiest Way Ever to Make an Accordion | CSS-Tricks

Hells, yeah! Want to make an accordion widget? Use the details element as your starting point and progressively enhance from there.

Making input type=date complicated – Samsung Internet Developers – Medium

PPK has posted some excellent thinking on calendar widgets to Ev’s blog.

You Might Not Need JavaScript

Una has put together a nice collection of patterns that use CSS for interactions. JavaScript would certainly be more suitable for many of these, but they still provide some great ideas for robust fallbacks.

How to get your tweets displaying on your website using JavaScript, without using new Twitter 1.1 API

A little piece of JavaScript to strip out the styling from Twitter widgets.

Oh, no! How horrid! Now Twitter won’t control the “user experience” of that widget!

Instead, the person who actually posted the tweets in the first place gets to decide how they should be displayed. Crazy idea, isn’t it?

Google Web Elements

Standalone embeddable widgets from Google that you can drop into any web page. The maps widget finally frees the maps API from the tyranny of coupling a domain with an API key.

Psychic Origami » Blog Archive » A Huffduffer Widget

John Montgomery has created an embeddable Huffduffer widget that you can add to your own site with one line of JavaScript. Hurrah! ...I really need to get 'round to documenting the (somewhat primitive) Huffduffer API.

Yahoo! Application Platform - YDN

This sounds like Yahoo's answer to Facebook Platform for single web pages or (spit!) widgets. We'll see if the reality matches the hype. "The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to build and launch open-social applications to the largest daily …

GUIMagnets - Prototyping made sticky

Interface elements as fridge magnets. Make prototyping fun!

Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience

Last.fm have gathered together the best apps built on their API and put them all in one handy browsable spot.

Home « Widgety Goodness

A conference all about, well, widgety goodness. In Brighton of course—home to all the best conferency goodness.

jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions

From the people who brought you jQuery comes a set of widgets built using jQuery complete with documentation and tutorials.

Medallia Blog: jQuery Reference Widget Archives

Use jQuery? Use a mac? Here's a handy dashboard reference.

Ben Ward » Announcing Twitgit, a Dashboard widget for Twitter

A dashboard widget for Twitter courtesy of Ben Ward.