From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13724 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 04:04:30 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 04:04:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 51375 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 04:04:24 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 04:04:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 24385 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2005 04:04:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 21496 Received: (qmail 24376 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 04:04:20 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 04:04:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 51029 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 04:04:20 -0000 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (206.46.252.46) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 20 Jul 2005 04:04:15 -0000 Received: from candle.brasslantern.com ([71.116.88.149]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJW00IMERAZKUU2@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for zsh-workers@sunsite.dk; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:04:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from candle.brasslantern.com (IDENT:schaefer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6K44B4w007222; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:04:11 -0700 Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j6K44Ahi007221; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:04:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:04:09 +0000 From: Bart Schaefer Subject: Re: widget In-reply-to: <42DD5361.1050402@yandex.ru> To: UVV , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Message-id: <1050720040410.ZM7220@candle.brasslantern.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <42DD5361.1050402@yandex.ru> Comments: In reply to UVV "widget" (Jul 20, 3:24am) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 On Jul 20, 3:24am, UVV wrote: } } Explain me please: what is *widget*? Many years ago, economics textbooks in U.S. universities used to talk a lot about manufacturing companies, because manufacturing was the biggest business then ("information technology" was barely entering the consciousness). When those textbooks needed to give an example of some anonymous but useful object that was being manufactured by a ficticious company, they called it a "widget". You can read more about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget Later on, the folks who wrote the X window system needed a word to refer to user interface objects that represented windows on the screen. They adopted "widget", re-inventing it as a contraction of "window gadget". The term then morphed into one referring to any small bit of interactive software from which a larger system is built up.