Sidebar (computing)

The term Sidebar or edge window or dock refers to a property of application programs or web pages, indicating the in a narrow region on one side of the interface function-specific information or applications or made ​​available.

Desktop Sidebar

Desktop sidebars are integrated into the user interface of the operating system, and are there additional functions (such as Windows Vista and Windows 7) or shortcut functions (eg Windows 8 ) ready. Applications that can be deposited on a sidebar widget hot. The sidebar in Mac OS X is called a dock. In addition, there is also the possibility, on operating systems that have no built-in Sidebar to provide a desktop sidebar with the aid of separate programs.

Sidebars on the Internet

Web pages have sidebars, some of which differ from desktop sidebars. They usually indicate kontextsensivitve information about the selected page. A sidebar on the home page could be about the news recently created, while if you call a message sidebar could represent the comments on this post.

Some browsers are also able to display sidebars fixed directly in the browser window. A special award link sent to the browser then the information display the destination of this link in the side of the browser permanently. A as follows formatted link tells the browser if it interprets this, with that the link target should be included as a sidebar element in the browser:

sidebar install Exemplary Widgets