We are refactoring the PublicWidget system in the public (website/...) javascript codebase. The initial plan was to convert them to Owl components, but after some experiments, the idea was discarded (did not feel right, also, it would prevent serving pages without Owl in the future).
See:
- PR odoo/odoo#185998
- Main file:
web/static/src/public/interaction.js
Silent in the nest,