Widget wars!

  This is too funny not to say something.
  A few days ago I installed a widget that makes it easy to follow me on Twitter. When I looked at it in Firebug I was surprised at how they did it. They basically framed the whole page, just to get a tiny little thing in there. What are they doing? I have no clue. I don't like it. It looks nefarious. I like technology that, when I lift the hood, looks simple and understandable.
  But what the fuck. Everyone else is doing it. I'll let it be for a while.
  Then this morning I saw this where it's supposed to show the number of Twitter followers.
  I clicked, and sure enough I could type some text.
  Hello. How did that happen?
  And how is that even possible?
  As I said, I'm laughing about this because it's funny. We've been to this place so many times. Conflicting plug-ins. It's a sign of an architecture that people are pushing farther than it was capable of going.
  Maybe it's because they don't like my browser? I have no idea.
  But maybe it's time to get rid of all the hitchers, and just stick plain old HTML. :-)