HTML elements = Java components

[enrique]

Is there anyone else besides myself bothered by the idea that some
Java programmers refer to HTML elements as "components" (in reference
to the Java widgets that wrap HTML)? Why is the Java community doing
this? I must stay this seems to make something that should be simple
complicated.

 

[bencoe]

Is there anyone else besides myself bothered by the idea that some
Java programmers refer to HTML elements as "components" (in reference
to the Java widgets that wrap HTML)? Why is the Java community doing
this? I must stay this seems to make something that should be simple
complicated.

Well, when you use HTML in Swing, or other 3rd party HTML renderers,
the HTML page displayed is just a collection of various components
positioned based on the markup. So the buttons in the HTML page are,
for instance, JButtons.

Ben.

 

[Lew]

Is there anyone else besides myself bothered by all this whining about the
correct use of a normal English word?

<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/component>

These things are called "components" because they are components. Get literate.

 

[Lew]

Is there anyone else besides myself bothered by all this whining about the
correct use of a normal English word?

<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/component>

These things are called "components" because they are components. Nothing to
whine about there.

 

[Roedy Green]

Is there anyone else besides myself bothered by the idea that some
Java programmers refer to HTML elements as "components" (in reference
to the Java widgets that wrap HTML)? Why is the Java community doing
this? I must stay this seems to make something that should be simple
complicated.

because in AWT nearly all those widgets are subclasses of Component
and in Swing of JComponent.