RE: 100% Java Web browser

Mark Baker (distobj@acm.org)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:35:27 -0500

At 04:48 PM 3/23/99 -0800, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>So, when is the DAV support going to be added? If your browser is going to
>be used in devices, it sure would be nice to have the ability to write
>content, like preferences, or phone contact lists, etc. back to a URL where
>they could be re-loaded if the device's power were ever lost (or the device
>itself were lost or broken).

Yah, definitely. But for now, we're going the DRP route;

http://www.w3.org/Submission/1997/10/Overview.html

Not as nice and symmetric as DAV, but hey, nowadays, when you're in a
division called "Consumer & Embedded", by and large you're still doing
client-side stuff. I don't get make assumptions about servers except those
I'm told to make.

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