Re: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?

Are any other of the Microsoft proposed extensions of general interest?
They have a property like "has-children" or something as well, I believe,
that they use...

--Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Luther" <luther.j@apple.com>
To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Interoperability for DAV:ishidden?


>
> If this were part of the standard, I'd certainly want to support it.
> Mac OS X creates some files which are intended to be hidden (being UNIX
> based, Mac OS X hides files which begin with a "." character) and so a
> standard WebDAV property to indicate that a file is supposed to be
> hidden would be welcome.
>
> - Jim
>
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 06:01 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > one thing that the participants of the interop meeting may want to
> > consider...
> >
> > A long time ago ([1]), Microsoft proposed a live property DAV:ishidden
> > which
> > signals that a resource should be displayed as hidden in a UI.
> >
> > Support currently exists in:
> >
> > MS IIS 5.0: reports DAV:ishidden according to the file system flags of
> > the
> > underlying file system
> > MS webfolder client: asks for DAV:ishidden, and hides the resource
> > when it
> > is reported as hidden
> > SAP Enterprise Portal Server: treats DAV:ishidden as live property
> > with the
> > semantics defined in [1]
> >
> > I think this is a really useful feature, and in case we can identify
> > another
> > client that supports it, we may want to roll it into RFC2518.
> >
> > Regards, Julian
> >
> >
> >
> > [1]
> > <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-hopmann-collection-props-
> > 00.txt>
> >
> > --
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> >
>
>

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