widg⋅et – noun
| a small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, esp. one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled; gadget: a row of widgets on the instrument panel. |
| something considered typical or representative, as of a manufacturer’s products: the widgets coming off the assembly line.
Widgets appear most frequently these days as helpful devices found on toolbars on millions of computers worldwide. They range in function from your basic weather tracker, to wall street analysis and now to the much talked about peanut/salmonella crisis facing the nation. Attached please find the FDA Salmonella product recall widget designed to keep us all up to date on the ever increasing list of contaminated food products which contain peanuts. JUST COPY THE CODE BELOW TO ADD TO YOUR OWN WEBSITE/BLOG/WIDGET SPOT! <object id=”fda_widget_salmonella09″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://www.cdc.gov/widgets/Salmonella/Salmonella2009.swf” width=”254″ height=”425″> <img src=”http://www.cdc.gov/widgets/images/Salmonella_425x254.jpg” width=”252″ height=”425″ alt=”FDA Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak 2009. Flash Player 9 is required.” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.cdc.gov/widgets/Salmonella/Salmonella2009.swf” /><param name=”AllowScriptAccess” value=”always”/><param name=”quality” value=”high” /><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” /></object> |
