For easier decision here is an article from Wikipedia:
Web Widget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_widgetA web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and
executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without
requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of code
reuse. Other terms used to describe web widgets include: gadget, badge,
module, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets usually
but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.
Widgets often take the form of on-screen tools (clocks, event
countdowns, auction-tickers, stock market tickers, flight arrival
information, daily weather etc).
Widgets
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a
web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static.
Generally widgets are originated by third parties, though they can be
home made. Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the early
development of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and
used third party code chunks in their pages. Early web widgets provided
functions such as link counters and advertising banners.
Usage and criticism
Applications can be integrated within a third party website by the
placement of a small snippet of code. The code brings in ‘live’ content
– advertisements, links, images – from a third party site without the
web site owner having to update or control.
End users can utilize Web Widgets to enhance a number of web-based
hosts, or drop targets. Categories of drop targets include social
networks, blogs, wikis and personal homepages. Although end users
primarily use Web Widgets to enhance their personal web experiences, or
the web experiences of visitors to their personal sites, corporations
can potentially use Web Widgets to improve their web sites using
syndicated content and functionality from third party providers.
The use of web widgets has been increasingly proposed as a marketing
channel that could replace the less effective targeted banner ads and
take advantage of the viral distribution in social networks. This usage
has been criticized as ineffective [1] on the basis that users of a
social space are not mainly in a mindset receptive to information
exposition but one of content creation.
See also GUI Widget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI_widgetIn computer programming, a widget (or control) is an element of a
graphical user interface (GUI) that displays an information arrangement
changeable by the user, such as a window or a text box. The defining
characteristic of a widget is to provide a single interaction point for
the direct manipulation of a given kind of data. Widgets are basic
visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the
data processed by the application and the available interactions on this
data.
Janko Mivšek pravi:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm thinking about if our naming of WebComponent can be rather changed
> to the WebWidget instead?
>
> One reason is to separate it more from WebElements which are called
> (stateless) components in other frameworks anyway.
>
> Another reason is that Nico's Iliad and seems that other frameworks like
> to call it the Widget too.
>
> So then we would say that:
>
> - WebElement is a stateless component and
> - WebWidget is a statefull component in Aida
>
> What do you think?
>
> Janko
>
>
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