Hi Ludovic, 2008/7/30 Ludovic Dubost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Hi Asiri, > > I've worked a little on WebDAV interoperability and made quite some > progress. > > We now have on Mac: > > - WebDAV working for browsing and downloading files > - WebDAV working for drag and dropping files > - WebDAV working with vi in view, edit and save (it says on save that the > file was changed while editing although it's not true) > - WebDAV working with a patched version of OpenOffice (with a fix for > locking) or with official NeoOffice in view edit and save > - WebDAV working with TextEdit in view, edit but NOT save > > Mac OSX generates phony attachments to store temporart files. TextEdit > fails because it tries to create a file then MOVE it (it might be because of > the same locking issue as OpenOffice). > > > And on Windows XP: > > With Novell NetDrive (mapping webdav to a driver letter): > > - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping > - WebDAV working with notepad and OpenOffice in view, edit, save > > With Microsoft Web Folders (2 versions on SP2 tested including the latest > patch from Microsoft, SP3 would need to be tested) > > - WebDAV allowing browsing, dowloading , drag and dropping > - WebDAV allowing to double click or open from notepad or OpenOffice but by > copying to a temp read only file. You then can SAVE AS to the WebDAV folder. > > It might be possible that MS Office allows to handle this differently. > > With Microsoft WebDAV redirector (same one available on Vista) > > - Nothing works at all. I've tried almost all I could to try to use it to > map a network drive on the webdav folder.. The constraints are pretty hard > on the web dav server and even though I was not able to have it fully > working. I find it a dead end. > > On Windows Vista: > > - Nothing works at all > > It seems possible to install a Web Folders package on Vista and have the > behavior of XP. > > In any case, the Microsoft solution is sub-optimal on Windows. Novell > NetDrive (free download findable on the web) or WebDrive (it's commercial > counterpart) seem to be much more efficient. > Maybe MSOffice works correctly with WebFolders but this needs to be tested. > So, should we not worry about native vista support ? (I think so, since NetDrive would do the trick) Thanks. - Asiri > > On Mac the behavior is pretty nice with the patched version of OpenOffice > (patch is published there: > http://tools.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81536 let's hope they > put it in the standard distrib). > > Ludovic > > > > -- > Ludovic Dubost > Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/ > XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com > Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
