World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WEBDAV): An Introduction1

Today the typical use of the World Wide Web is to browse information in a largely readonly manner. However, this was not the original conception of the Web; as early as 1990, a prototype Web editor and browser was operational on the Next platform, demonstrating how Web content could be read and written. Unfortunately, most of the world never saw this editor/browser, instead developing their view of the Web from the widely distributed text-based line mode browser. When NCSA Mosaic was developed, it improved the line mode browser by adding a graphical user interface and inline images, but had no provision for editing. As Mosaic 2.4 reached critical mass in 1993-4, “publish/browse” became the dominant model for the Web.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/intro/dav_acm_sv.pdf

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