Widgets are meant to be embedded in an iBook authored with iBook Author. They are written to run when embedded in an iBook that plays on the iPad.
To try all widgets and access the associated documentation, open the iba file in iBookAuthor if you have it already installed, connect a iPad on the USB port and click the preview button.
To test one widget at a time, add them to any iBook. In iBookAuthor, create or open an iBook and in the toolbar, click on the "Widget" button and select HTML widget at the end of the list. When asked for a dashcode file, points the file chooser to one of the ".wdgt" files.
Most HTML widgets will play on any modern browser. Open the widget folder (on a mac, you would have to right-click on the file and choose "Show Package Content"), click on the main html file (index.html or main.html). This will run the html file in your default browser.
MIT License (http://widged.mit-license.org/)
Marielle Lange (http://widged.com)
The documentation is in the form of an iBook as it allows to demonstrate the widgets in context. The current title is "Interactive iBooks" and it comes in two formats, pdf (2.4MB) or iba (iBookAuthor, 12MB).
That's an early draft. Comments and suggestions welcome.
You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/widged/iBook-widgets