If you have designed / developed your own site, or have designed / developed sites for others, sooner or later you came across the small fact that many people only use three different types of fonts on the web including “Arial”, “Verdana” and “Times”. Beauty of the web is about having many operating systems and browsers and interfaces come together for standard plat for on web. Since there are so many variations of connecting to web majority of them have only few things in common. Fonts being the least of those things.
Unless you live under a rock, you probably have seen widgets. Mainly widgets are more popular on Mac then PC of course. But now more and more PC developers are coming up with widgets as well, like screen ruler, google desktop, news alerts and etc.
Of course everyone likes sessions. There are great rewards if you store some information on users machine and have the ability to read it and write it again and again without user intervention.