As you can see I've recently built a few templates demonstrating different ways of building widgets. I see templates as both a means to document how to build certain behaviour into widgets and a means to provide a quick start way of building widgets.

However, these two objectives are not complimentary. The more detailed a template becomes the less likely it is to be reused as it will have features that are not needed and not have features that are needed. In addition, the more detailed it becomes the less useful it is as a form of documentation.

What I propose to do is build a number of templates where each one demonstrates a single key feature of W3C Widgets or Open Social Gadgets. Note I say a *single* feature, I really mean it. If we focus on demonstrating a single feature very well then each template becomes useful as a documentation for the feature being demonstrated.

Does this sound like a sensible strategy. That is attack each of these tasks in order:

- build templates as documentation for features of widgets and gadgets - integrate these templates into our website - provide a clever "jumpstart" system for widgets/gadgets