Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:36 pm
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Wouldn't that be "the hippy chick I used to go to school with..."The Ninja Space Goat wrote:and the other seemingly normal female that looks like a chic I used to go to school with... wtf?
No, it would be the 'girl I used to date in school --> viewtopic.php?p=328670#328670arborint wrote:Wouldn't that be "the hippy chick I used to go to school with..."
arborint wrote:I think those are Applets ...jayshields wrote:Well, I always thought a widget was one of those little apps that mac users have on their desktops.
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html wrote:Tiger introduces a new feature called Dashboard, which provides a new and unique class of mini-applications called Widgets.
You have to love it when the marketing types get involved mini-applications == Applets but lets call them called Widgets.volka wrote:http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html wrote:Tiger introduces a new feature called Dashboard, which provides a new and unique class of mini-applications called Widgets.
Nope, they are called "widgets" when they are part of the dashboardarborint wrote:I think those are Applets ...jayshields wrote:Well, I always thought a widget was one of those little apps that mac users have on their desktops.
So I'm not as stupid as I thought. I was going to mention the dashboard instead of desktop but I didn't know if I got that terminology from somewhere else.volka wrote:arborint wrote:I think those are Applets ...jayshields wrote:Well, I always thought a widget was one of those little apps that mac users have on their desktops.http://developer.apple.com/macosx/dashboard.html wrote:Tiger introduces a new feature called Dashboard, which provides a new and unique class of mini-applications called Widgets.
I acknowledge how these terms are used. I think my point is that "widget" can mean a control (either simple or complex) or a mini-application, but "applet" can only mean mini-application. Widget is a fuzzier term that means thing or unit. It's like the words "thing-a-ma-bob" and "doo-dad" and "doo-hickey" but dressed in a business suit. I get the sense that widgets are more control-like, while applets are more application-like. But then in the case of Apple, the name given to users would be chosen by marketing types -- not technical types -- so all logic goes out the window.Jenk wrote:I've always defined widgets/applets as an 'application' with a single purpose.. Applications do multiple things.. meh.
A round of beer is just what this thread needs ...Jenk wrote:Like the widgets you (used to?) get in the bottom of John Smith's beer cans.. single purpose (to generate bubbles upon opening the can) and it was actually called a widget.
Websters Dictionary, when asked what a widget is, wrote:an unnamed article considered for purposes of hypothetical example
widget noun 1 a device attached to the bottom of cans of draught beer so that when it is poured it has a proper head and resembles a glass of beer as poured from a tap in a pub. 2 a gadget; any small manufactured item or component.
ETYMOLOGY: 1920s: perhaps an alteration of gadget.