netvibes solves widget platform problem?

In the growing interest for widgets, the need for a universal platform gets bigger by the day.

On fowa event Netvibes Tariq Krim announced a universal platform on the upcoming "coriander" release.

This is great , everyone who wants to build a widget first has to choose the single platform to build on, like yahoo, google, microsoft etc. Netvibes release of the universal platform can fix this problem.

And what we saw on the FOWA presentation looks promising.

This will solve the problem for the standards of vista, google and mac for now. The update later on will include yahoo and others.

Tariq also mentioned that netvibes will be open sourcing the platform so any widget platform can be included.

A big advantage for the widgets and well done by netvibes.

here are some screenshots: