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Office Web Components (OWC) are a group of Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) components available in Office 2000, XP, and 2003. These ActiveX Controls can be plugged into web pages, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) forms, and Windows Forms, or programmed in-memory. The OWC can be used by any COM-compliant Component Object Model programming language. Applications such as Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project and Microsoft FrontPage allowed creating interactive web pages using Office Web Components.

Source: wikipedia

OWC is deprecated technology. Microsft web


Hypertext components (.htc)

HTML Components (HTCs) are a legacy technology used to implement components in script as Dynamic HTML (DHTML) "behaviors" in the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser.

Sources: wikipedia • Microsft web


Web components

An article describing web components in general (unrelated to Microsoft's implemetation).

"Web Components can be used in multiple applications and provide interoperability between frameworks making them reusable and modular. In fact, the entire component’s markup can be placed inside a template which follows the separation of concerns principle, thus minimizing tight coupling and increasing maintainability of code. Web Components also prevent inheritance and naming conflicts by separating the component from the rest of the DOM (Document Object Model), also known as encapsulation."

Last update: February 2020