Terminology question. In your App / Docs / Videos you always speak of instances if you refer to elements on the page. I understand an instance as a non-unique copy of something, often driven by some common parent. Elements on the canvas may be an instance – but often enough, they are unique – such as images.
Of course, one from the perspective of the app-creator may see elements on screen as instances of components you make available – in that sense, bitmaps indeed live in an instance of your image component.
Then again – users will likely find their creations unique and think of the "About"-Card and the "Contact" card as different items, even the underlying HTML-element has the same structure.
This just struck me as odd and unprecise – but I'm neither a native English speaker, nor a code-wizard.
Is this usage for the term instance common in visual Web-Builders?
Ok, I understood this derivation – and it undoubtedly is technically correct. But should one use this term?
Designers who build unique websites with Webstudio will certainly not imagine their website as a bunch of instances (i.e. a trivial collection of essentially the same things. Of course, they will continue talking of elements…
One creates a mismatch between what people have in their head and the official term. It appears quite clever to me, that Webflow chose the "dirty" term elements in their GUI.
