The quote above is being displayed by a Google gadget. This gadget is brought to you by Dynamic Answers.

Here is the actual embedded link to the gadget, rendered through Google's server:


The rendering of this particular gadget takes three pieces:

  1. The link embedded here (shown above).
  2. The XML module that contains the gadget "spec".
  3. The HTML file that the module reads and displays.

I could have put the quote inside the XML but I wanted to show how the display code and the data could be separated.

Here is the XML module contents of "FirstGadget.xml":

 The only real action here is the "url" type reference in the Content tag (I like to start simple). The "html" type Content for gadgets can be much more complex and, of course, accomplish more sophisticated tasks. 

Here's a place to start your own learning about gadgets: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets