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From: Fred Douglis <douglis@research.att.com>
To: "Delta-V" <ietf-dav-versioning@w3.org>
Cc: chen@research.att.com
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:36:55 -0400
Subject: displaying versions & changes
For those of you who aren't aware of it already, I've
done some work on a network service to track changes to
pages. It would be great to retrofit this service (called
AIDE for the AT&T Internet Difference Engine, info at
http://www.research.att.com/~douglis/aide) to use delta-v.
One of the things AIDE has done all along is the use of RCS to
track versions, and then report the history on demand, as a
table with the ability to check any two boxes to run
"htmldiff" on the two versions specified. It runs both
as a network service (track any pages) and a web site service
(track the pages on that website, offering a user-customized
"what's new" page).
There are various papers available at the URL above, but the
system itself is not public, unfortunately. I do understand
that netmind (url-minder) is starting to offer some ability
to display changes to pages when changes are detected.
Fred