I've heard this in interviews with Berners-Lee in the past. Did his
model allow editing ANY page and creating NEW pages from the browser?
How did he envision interaction with file protection schemes?
I've also heard that WebDAV is based on Berners-Lee's original model.
Mark
>Hello:
>Tim Berners-Lee is quite specific about the early history and motivation re:
>web editing in his book "Weaving the Web". There are many refs to web
>editing since this was definitely part of his idea.
>i.e.,page 29
>"By mid-November [1990] I had a client program written--a point and click
>browser/editor - which I just called World Wide Web. By December it was
>working with the Hypertext Markup Language I had written...The browser would
>decode URIs, and let me read, write, or *edit* web pages in HTML. "
>
>At TBL's urging CERN put the whole technology in the public domain. My
>guess is that he would be a formidable defender of the free exchange of
>these ideas.
>
>Joe Whitesell
>
>` ``
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mark Guzdial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:42 AM
>Subject: RE: [pws] Is EditThisPage a Wiki?
>
>
> > So, I decided that one way to make sure that Dave Winer can't say
> > that he didn't know about Prior Art is by making his site an
> > advertisement for the prior art.
> >
> > Please visit http://thewikifrontier.editthispage.com/
> >
> > Let me know if you're a member of Userland, and I'll make sure to add
> > you as a member who can edit the page. Let's please include links to
> > as many kinds of Wikis (especially those older than Manila) as
> > possible. (If you'd like to mail me with an addition, feel free, and
> > I'll post it for you.)
> >
> > Please feel free to pass this URL around. Generating traffic for the
> > site is a good way of making sure that it attracts Dave's attention.
> >
> > Mark
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