- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 13:38:12 -0800
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Accidentally caught by the spam filter. - Jim -----Original Message----- From: Edgar Schwarz [mailto:Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 6:24 AM To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org Subject: [Moderator Action] Re: Why IE's Web Folders are accessed through File/Open Yaron Goland wrote: > The last idea to be considered, which I admit responsibility for, > was to introduce a new type of URL, dav:. Any time we saw a dav: URL we > would do a PROPFIND. That's what I decided to do for my Oberon client. > While I wasn't enamored with this idea I felt it was practical. Agreed :-) > Also the IE UI guys went absolutely insane at the mere suggestion that > a DAV: URL could appear in the address bar. They too could hear the support > phone lines ringing as people demanded to know what the hell a DAV URL was > and where the HTTP URL had gone to. So this idea was also killed off. It`s a pity. I think at least for Oberon users there shouldn`t be such a problem. There are already names like mailto:..., ftp://..., http://..., so why shouldn`t there be a dav://... . And why should this be something a MS user wouldn`t understand. He already knows a: b:, c:, ... So you could sell dav: just as onother distributed disk :-) > The reason we were allowed to use file/open is that absolutely > nobody ever uses file/open. So the UI folks weren't worried about having > this funky "Open as Web Folder" switch in file/open. In fact the UI folk > wanted to remove file/open all together from IE but the MS UI regulations > require it to be there. So they said we could throw in the switch there. In > other words, we were allowed to produce a bad user experience because we > were counting on the majority of users never, ever, finding the switch > without being explicitly told it was there. Don't you wish I was making this > all up? YES ! Cheers, Edgar -- Edgar.Schwarz@marconicomms.com ON/EUE1, 07191/13-3382 Niklaus Wirth: Privat kann jeder soviel C programmieren oder Videos ansehen wie er mag. Albert Einstein: Mach es so einfach wie moeglich, aber nicht einfacher.
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