On 22 May 2005, at 17:26, Alex Perez wrote:
Personally, I think widget is a bad choice as well, mostly because
lots of people call UI controls widgets, and immediately think of
widgets-in-the-UI-sense when you say the word (at least in English)
Why not call it an Applet? Docklet? I think the former is
preferable, personally.
Agreed. I am not entirely happy with widget either. Applet is nice,
but has Java connotations. Docket seems to imply that it is docked
somewhere, rather than floating.
Hm, not so sure about that...that's not very end-user friendly, at
all. You're thinking like a developer, not a user ;-)
Not at all. From a developer's perspective, it is easier to give
everything the same theme.
Look at the Classic environment in OS X as an example:
It would have been relatively easy for Apple to have made classic
apps look like Aqua apps, but they didn't, for two reasons:
1) To encourage people to develop native OS X apps (not really
important for us), and
2) Because Classic apps conform to a different set of HIGs to Aqua
apps. By keeping the Platinum theme for them, this provided the user
with a visual clue that their legacy applications would not behave
the same way as their new ones.
The only problem is, I'm not sure any of those are better...
I quite like blob, but it might be confused with Binary Large OBject
by database people.
except they're not applications in the traditional sense...they're
JavaScript applets, for the most part, AFAIR
Which is completely irrelevant to the user...
