WebDAV: Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring: Next-Generation Collaborative Web Authoring (Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems)

This book is the complete reference to today's only Internet-based document

authoring and management standard: WebDAV (Web-based Distributed

Authoring and Versioning). If your work involves collaborative document

authoring, document management or Web or print publishing, WebDAV is

beginning to change the way you share documents with others.

Until recently, the Web has been limited to download and display capabilities.

HTTP editing functions do not allow multiple authors to work on the same

document remotely and in a secure manner. Much Web content authoring is

collaborative and occurs remotely. WebDAV is the first standard protocol to

address this need. It builds on and extends HTTP to bring the same benefits to

authoring that the Web has already brought to viewing content.

The Web is finally becoming a true authoring medium.

In the past year, support for WebDAV has greatly accelerated. Authors can

now use WebDAV in products such as Dreamweaver and Adobe products

such as Photoshop, GoLive and in the recently released version of

Framemaker WebDAV is also being supported in the operating systems

including MAC OS X and Windows XP.