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C H A P T E R 8 Finesse Desktop Gadget Development • Finesse Gadgets, on page 383 • Best Practices for Gadget Development, on page 389 • Supported OpenSocial Features, on page 391 • Gadget Caching, on page 395 • Notifications on Finesse Desktop, on page 395 • Finesse Notifications in Third-Party Containers, on page 396 • Finesse Topics, on page 396 • Finesse Container Timer, on page 402 • Handling Special Characters in CSS, on page 403 • Subscription Management on Finesse Desktop, on page 404 • Gadget Height Management, on page 404 Finesse Gadgets Gadgets are web-based software components based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They allow developers to write web applications that work anywhere on the web without modification. They are defined using a declarative XML syntax that is processed by a gadget server into a format that allows them to be embedded into the following contexts: • standalone web pages • web applications • other gadgets Cisco Finesse Web Services Developer and JavaScript Guide, Release 12.5(1) 383