What exactly is it for? I thought it was to allow you to run little scripts for gadgets, such as the one at the link below, on your site. But it turns out I can run them on my site anyways, and I'm on Stevie (which doesn't support the JAVA/JSP feature at the moment), and I didn't make any request for JSP to be enabled on my site.
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&url=http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/112581010116074801021/spider.xml
You can see from my site that this little gadget is running on my 'about me' page at the following link... http://traditionalirishfood.heliohost.org/About%20me.html and you can also see that I have embedded a video from YouTube on the same page.
Sorry, I know those items bear no significance to what my site is intended for, but I' just using them to experiment with what can and can't do on my site.
So, I take it that I can include any of these gadgets/widgets from Google or other reputable sources, and embed videos on my page whenever I like?
Can somebody give me a little guidance on this, thanks