Re: WebDAV capabilities in HTML?

Jim Whitehead schrieb:
> OK, it appears I wasn't clear enough in my original post. Let me try again.
> 
> I am interested in the kinds of applications that might be possible if:
> a) a standard Web browser can act as a WebDAV client
> b) new XHTML tags existed whose semantics mapped to one or more WebDAV 
> methods
> 
> I recognize that current web browsers currently can execute WebDAV 
> methods via Javascript. This requires a fair degree of sophistication, 
> and raises cross-browser compatibility issues. What if some set of 
> WebDAV operations were accessible via XHTML elements? This would permit 
> these operations to be specified in an XHTML document simply, ideally 
> with greater cross-platform compatibility.
> ...

Ah.

Well, the cross-browser issues are IMHO slowly going away, with most 
current browsers exposing the XMLHttpRequest object (see 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/>).

I'm not sure what the chances of getting cross-browser support for new 
XHTML elements are, considering that IE7 still doesn't support XHTML at 
all...

Best regards, Julian