diff --git a/examples/widgets/directview/directview.ipynb b/examples/widgets/directview/directview.ipynb
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--- a/examples/widgets/directview/directview.ipynb
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-{
- "metadata": {
-  "name": "directview"
- },
- "nbformat": 3,
- "nbformat_minor": 0,
- "worksheets": [
-  {
-   "cells": [
-    {
-     "cell_type": "code",
-     "collapsed": false,
-     "input": [
-      "from directview import interact\n",
-      "from IPython.parallel import Client"
-     ],
-     "language": "python",
-     "metadata": {},
-     "outputs": []
-    },
-    {
-     "cell_type": "code",
-     "collapsed": false,
-     "input": [
-      "c = Client()\n",
-      "dv = c[:]"
-     ],
-     "language": "python",
-     "metadata": {},
-     "outputs": []
-    },
-    {
-     "cell_type": "code",
-     "collapsed": false,
-     "input": [
-      "interact(dv)"
-     ],
-     "language": "python",
-     "metadata": {},
-     "outputs": []
-    }
-   ],
-   "metadata": {}
-  }
- ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/widgets/directview/directview.js b/examples/widgets/directview/directview.js
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--- a/examples/widgets/directview/directview.js
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@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-//  Copyright (C) 2008-2012  The IPython Development Team
-//
-//  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
-//  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
-//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-//============================================================================
-// EngineInteract
-//============================================================================
-
-var key   = IPython.utils.keycodes;
-
-
-var DirectViewWidget = function (selector, kernel, targets) {
-    // The kernel doesn't have to be set at creation time, in that case
-    // it will be null and set_kernel has to be called later.
-    this.selector = selector;
-    this.element = $(selector);
-    this.kernel = kernel || null;
-    this.code_mirror = null;
-    this.targets = targets;
-    this.create_element();
-};
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.create_element = function () {
-    this.element.addClass('cell border-box-sizing code_cell vbox');
-    this.element.attr('tabindex','2');
-    this.element.css('padding-right',0);
-
-    var control = $('<div/>').addClass('dv_control').height('30px');
-    var control_label = $('<span/>').html('Select engine(s) to run code on interactively: ');
-    control_label.css('line-height','30px');
-    var select = $('<select/>').addClass('dv_select ui-widget ui-widget-content');
-    select.css('font-size','85%%').css('margin-bottom','5px');
-    var n = this.targets.length;
-    select.append($('<option/>').html('all').attr('value','all'));
-    for (var i=0; i<n; i++) {
-        select.append($('<option/>').html(this.targets[i]).attr('value',this.targets[i]))
-    }
-    control.append(control_label).append(select);
-
-    var input = $('<div></div>').addClass('input hbox');
-    var input_area = $('<div/>').addClass('input_area box-flex1');
-    this.code_mirror = CodeMirror(input_area.get(0), {
-        indentUnit : 4,
-        mode: 'python',
-        theme: 'ipython',
-        onKeyEvent: $.proxy(this.handle_codemirror_keyevent,this)
-    });
-    input.append(input_area);
-    var output = $('<div></div>');
-
-
-    this.element.append(control).append(input).append(output);
-	this.output_area = new IPython.OutputArea(output, false);
-
-};
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.handle_codemirror_keyevent = function (editor, event) {
-    // This method gets called in CodeMirror's onKeyDown/onKeyPress
-    // handlers and is used to provide custom key handling. Its return
-    // value is used to determine if CodeMirror should ignore the event:
-    // true = ignore, false = don't ignore.
-  
-    var that = this;
-    var cur = editor.getCursor();
-
-    if (event.keyCode === key.ENTER && event.shiftKey && event.type === 'keydown') {
-        // Always ignore shift-enter in CodeMirror as we handle it.
-        event.stop();
-        that.execute();
-        return true;
-    } else if (event.keyCode === key.UP && event.type === 'keydown') {
-        event.stop();
-        return false;
-    } else if (event.keyCode === key.DOWN && event.type === 'keydown') {
-        event.stop();
-        return false;
-    } else if (event.keyCode === key.BACKSPACE && event.type == 'keydown') {
-        // If backspace and the line ends with 4 spaces, remove them.
-        var line = editor.getLine(cur.line);
-        var ending = line.slice(-4);
-        if (ending === '    ') {
-            editor.replaceRange('',
-                {line: cur.line, ch: cur.ch-4},
-                {line: cur.line, ch: cur.ch}
-            );
-            event.stop();
-            return true;
-        } else {
-            return false;
-        };
-    };
-
-    return false;
-};
-
-
-// Kernel related calls.
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.set_kernel = function (kernel) {
-    this.kernel = kernel;
-}
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.execute = function () {
-    this.output_area.clear_output();
-    this.element.addClass("running");
-    var callbacks = {
-        'execute_reply': $.proxy(this._handle_execute_reply, this),
-        'output': $.proxy(this.output_area.handle_output, this.output_area),
-        'clear_output': $.proxy(this.output_area.handle_clear_output, this.output_area),
-    };
-    var target = this.element.find('.dv_select option:selected').attr('value');
-    if (target === 'all') {
-        target = '"all"';
-    }
-    var code = '%(widget_var)s.execute("""'+this.get_text()+'""",targets='+target+')';
-    var msg_id = this.kernel.execute(code, callbacks, {silent: false});
-    this.clear_input();
-    this.code_mirror.focus();
-};
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype._handle_execute_reply = function (content) {
-    this.element.removeClass("running");
-    // this.dirty = true;
-}
-
-// Basic cell manipulation.
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.select_all = function () {
-    var start = {line: 0, ch: 0};
-    var nlines = this.code_mirror.lineCount();
-    var last_line = this.code_mirror.getLine(nlines-1);
-    var end = {line: nlines-1, ch: last_line.length};
-    this.code_mirror.setSelection(start, end);
-};
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.clear_input = function () {
-    this.code_mirror.setValue('');
-};
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.get_text = function () {
-    return this.code_mirror.getValue();
-};
-
-
-DirectViewWidget.prototype.set_text = function (code) {
-    return this.code_mirror.setValue(code);
-};
-
-container.show();
-var widget = $('<div/>')
-// When templating over a JSON string, we must use single quotes.
-var targets = '%(targets)s';
-targets = $.parseJSON(targets);
-var eiw = new DirectViewWidget(widget, IPython.notebook.kernel, targets);
-element.append(widget);
-element.css('padding',0);
-setTimeout(function () {
-    eiw.code_mirror.refresh();
-    eiw.code_mirror.focus();
-}, 1);
-
diff --git a/examples/widgets/directview/directview.py b/examples/widgets/directview/directview.py
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--- a/examples/widgets/directview/directview.py
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-"""Widget for interacting with an IPython parallel engine.
-
-Authors:
-
-* Brian Granger
-"""
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (C) 2008-2012  The IPython Development Team
-#
-#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
-#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Imports
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-import os
-import uuid
-
-from IPython.core.display import display, Javascript
-from IPython.core.displaypub import publish_pretty
-
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Code
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-import os, sys
-from IPython.core.display import Javascript
-
-from widget import JavascriptWidget
-
-
-class DirectViewWidget(JavascriptWidget):
-
-    def __init__(self, dv):
-        self.dv = dv
-        self.targets = self.dv.targets
-        super(DirectViewWidget,self).__init__()
-
-    def render(self):
-        fname = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), u'directview.js')
-        with open(fname, 'r') as f:
-            jscode = f.read()
-        data = {
-            'widget_var': self.widget_var,
-            'targets' : self.encode_json(self.targets)
-        }
-        jscode = jscode % data
-        return jscode
-
-    def execute(self, code, targets='all'):
-        if targets == 'all':
-            targets = self.targets
-        result = self.dv.execute(code,silent=False,block=False,targets=targets)
-        result.wait()
-        result.display_outputs()
-
-
-def interact(dv):
-    w = DirectViewWidget(dv)
-    w.interact()
-    return w
-
-
diff --git a/examples/widgets/directview/widget.py b/examples/widgets/directview/widget.py
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--- a/examples/widgets/directview/widget.py
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-"""Python support code for JavaScript based widgets.
-
-Authors:
-
-* Brian Granger
-"""
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (C) 2008-2012  The IPython Development Team
-#
-#  Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.  The full license is in
-#  the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Imports
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-import os
-import uuid
-
-from IPython.core.display import display, Javascript
-
-from zmq.utils import jsonapi
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Code
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-
-class JavascriptWidget(object):
-
-    jslibs = []
-    
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.widget_id = unicode(uuid.uuid4()).replace('-','')
-        self.widget_var = '__widget_%s' % self.widget_id
-        ns = get_ipython().user_ns
-        ns[self.widget_var] = self
-
-    def encode_json(self, o):
-        return jsonapi.dumps(o)
-
-    def decode_json(self, s):
-        return jsonapi.loads(s)
-
-    def interact(self):
-        """This should call display(Javascript(jscode))."""
-        jscode = self.render()
-        display(Javascript(data=jscode,lib=self.jslibs))
-
-    def render(self):
-        """Return the final JavaScript code that will be eval'd in the client."""
-        raise NotImplementedError('render is not implemented in this base class')
-
-
-