With the official introduction of Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft also announced to finally support Widgets. Microsoft's Windows Mobile Widgets are interactive, HTML and CSS-based, JavaScripts tools that provide single-purpose services such as showing the user the latest news, the current weather, the time, a calendar, a dictionary or whatever; similar in concept to a Gadget for Windows Vista. Gadgets brought the wealth of experience of Web developers to the Windows Vista platform, and widgets will do the same for mobile devices. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is used for dynamic presentation of data to produce a rich interface, while the XMLHttpRequest control is used to load data from the Web. Windows Mobile 6.5 Widgets are installed locally on the mobile device and, like Windows Vista Gadgets, widgets run locally but can use data dynamically accessed from the cloud.
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