- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:04:44 +0200
- To: Jim Whitehead <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>
- CC: WebDav WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, Rohit Khare <rohit@commerce.net>
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
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