>> I don't think that's a good option. We may not need to support both, but >> supporting one is probably quite important. For one thing, it'd kill Enfold >> Desktop and similar integrations. WebDAV is also very useful for bulk >> movement of images and documents.
Webdav is main mechanism for iPad to read/write blobs to remote servers. iWorks and GoodReader are both quite reasonable for doing day-to-day work on iPad. > Yes, at this point I personally think it's fair to consider anything that > isn't part of the web as dead to us. WebDAV is kinda part of the web. FTP, I agree - should not be supported. > Besides, few people are willing to edit HTML by hand on the file system > anymore, and people are increasingly moving away from "blobby" formats like > .doc and are comfortable with doing editing through the web browser as long > as we can supply proper formatting + layout support (via Deco) and a good > autosave-to-draft implementation — and with the IndexedDB/localStorage > options on the horizon for the web in the near future, we can even support > offline editing in a proper, standards-based manner. Maybe think about killing WebDAV when we have these features: Offline editing, magical wysiwyg blobby editing controls. > I've been pretty bullish on dropping WebDAV and FTP for a while now, and I > think it's time to get serious about it. It siphons away our focus on proper, > TTW solutions when there's always the "you can use WebDAV for batch > operations" option that isn't really maintained by anyone — no disrespect to > Enfold et al, of course, this is a client-side WebDAV issue that is unlikely > to be particularly good in any OS, ever. I am totally fine with dropping WebDAV. It kinda works and is hard wired into zope/plone. So is FTP and xmlrpc. > I think we should envision a future without WebDAV and FTP as core components > of our stack. They never worked well in practice, and are unlikely to ever > reach mainstream usage because of the extra steps, concept abstraction, and > setup knowledge required. I think most people solely want files and folders wrt to WebDAV. Maybe constraining the problem is best. Not much to keep that story together. I do agree in 5 years WebDAV should be gone. > The browser should be our only deployment target on the client side. I agree. I think we could even go as far as saying web browser is our only supported platform. While there are others they are not officially supported. Alan _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list Framework-Team@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
