- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 18:11:27 -0700
- To: Jon Radoff <jradoff@novalink.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
>Based on this statements can it also be assumed that an intention >of WebDAV would be for it to be possible to perform WebDAV methods >without new client software, e.g., use an HTML form to acquire >information about desired methods and parameters which then feeds into >the Web server a request which can be fulfilled? In other words, >could the end-user interactive elements of the WebDAV infrastructure be >centralized at the server, utilizing the Web browser as simply a >communications channel? Could I use IE? Netscape 2.0? Mosaic? >Lynx (only kidding). I suspect that you will be able to construct a server which exposes WebDAV functionality via an HTML interface -- the BSCW system (http://bscw.gmd.de) is one example of how this might look. However, I don't think the WebDAV group needs to be concerned about this case because this type of operation does not require an interoperability standard. In general, there hasn't been a major concern with preserving downlevel client interoperability given the rapid turnover of client software, and the small base of existing Web distributed authoring clients. - Jim
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