Thanks for the info, and this can be helpful for some people, but please explain me, 1st why a user should reproduce with the hard way all the functions that XWidget supports on its own without so much trouble. I'm sure that for the average user who wants to create or discover XWidget will be impossible to edit and understand this kind of script and especially your kind that is ported from yahoo widgets. 2nd why you continue to "scare" people and alarm them with this continous "Xwidget engine does ever turn into abandonware" or "find yourself in the position of having a lot of widgets but nowhere to run them"...
This is not true 1st because Tony working on it and 2nd after the last update from 1.8 to 1.9 he changed all the core tags so the program has perfect compatibility even with the old widgets and the widgets run without any problem from XP to win10.
About the cores, XWidget is unique and user friendly exactly from this reason. Because even a novice user can create a widget and no need to be a prof designer or write down more than 1000 lines of js for functions, like in yahoo widgets or rainmeter. I agree that XWidget needs some more features and bug fixes, but I suggest you to wait the v2.0 and not be so negative. You had a negative experience with the yahoo engine, but not necessary happens the same thing here.
And to be clear, this is my opinion first as a user and designer and then as a Mod-part of the XWidget team.
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