https://www.setera.org/2011/07/30/inertia/ Ramblings of a geek Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.24 https://www.setera.org/2011/07/30/inertia/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:55:51 +0000 https://www.setera.org/?p=541#comment-108 The second item is definitely where some types of widgets lose out. While I understand the thinking there, it makes some types of widgets extremely difficult to implement.

]]> https://www.setera.org/2011/07/30/inertia/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:01:41 +0000 https://www.setera.org/?p=541#comment-107 The reasons are twofold: security and stability for the home screen (none of your code running persistently in the homescreen procress) and power usage (essentially the widget decides when it should be updated graphically rather than you)

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