Ajaxian offered up a pointer to a Macintosh Dashboard widget for searching the documentation for the prototype.js documentation.

prototype.js is an excellent Javascript library which provides browser-independent AJAX functionality. It’s at the heart of many AJAX-based applications out there.

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There are so many kinds of widgets out there now that I can barely keep track. There are Yahoo Widgets (the widgets formerly known as Konfabulator), Apple’s Dashboard, Google Widgets and now Opera has them too. And of course, they’re all different.

My primary interest in widgets from a development perspective is that they can be a good way to help connect people with a web site.

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