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Web Folders in Windows, WebDAV, OS 9, iDisk, history
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Hi,
This never occurred to me, but I guess since Web Folders have been in Windows since 98 (I believe), and iDisk also works in OS 9 (and possibly earlier versions), WebDAV is not a new thing.
Anybody know just how old WebDAV is, who was responsible for this technology (Microsoft?), and why myself and I'm assuming many other people weren't even aware of it until the whole iDisk thing (and especially OS X)?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Vancouver, WA
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WebDAV has been around a long time. It started as an open standard, and still is, though players such as Microsoft, Novell, and Xerox have been involved in its development. Like many standards, it's been slow to catch on in some areas, but its use is spreading ever faster as more people and more companies jump on the bandwagon. Probably one of the key factors affecting its increasing popularity is mod_dav for Apache -- before then, WebDAV servers tended to be proprietary or academic projects. For more general info about WebDAV, see http://www.webdav.org.
iDisk in OS 9 (and in Mac OS X 10.0.x) uses AFP (aka AppleShare), not WebDAV.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: England
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didn't idisk switch to webdav in 10.1?
and if you install ie 5 on win95 or nt4 they too can use webdav!
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