diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/__init__.py b/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.ipynb b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4145f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+ "metadata": {
+  "name": "directview"
+ },
+ "nbformat": 3,
+ "worksheets": [
+  {
+   "cells": [
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "input": [
+      ""
+     ],
+     "language": "python",
+     "outputs": []
+    }
+   ]
+  }
+ ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/directview.js b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.js
similarity index 100%
rename from IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/directview.js
rename to docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.js
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/directview.py b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.py
similarity index 93%
rename from IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/directview.py
rename to docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.py
index 8a46c63..59fa0fb 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/directview.py
+++ b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/directview.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from IPython.core.displaypub import publish_pretty
 import os, sys
 from IPython.core.display import Javascript
 
-from .widget import JavascriptWidget
+from widget import JavascriptWidget
 
 
 class DirectViewWidget(JavascriptWidget):
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ class DirectViewWidget(JavascriptWidget):
         super(DirectViewWidget,self).__init__()
 
     def render(self):
-        jscode = self.load_file(u'directview.js')
+        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)
diff --git a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/widget.py b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/widget.py
similarity index 87%
rename from IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/widget.py
rename to docs/examples/widgets/directview/widget.py
index d8fed29..a209913 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/html/notebook/widgets/widget.py
+++ b/docs/examples/widgets/directview/widget.py
@@ -39,19 +39,6 @@ class JavascriptWidget(object):
         ns = get_ipython().user_ns
         ns[self.widget_var] = self
 
-    def load_file(self, fname):
-        """Read a file in the same directory as this module.
-
-        This exists to make it easy for developers of widget to put Javascript
-        source files and templates in the same directory as their Python
-        widget code. This is much better than writing the JavaScript code in
-        Python strings.
-        """
-        fname = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)
-        with open(fname) as f:
-            data = f.read()
-        return data
-
     def encode_json(self, o):
         return jsonapi.dumps(o)