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The short answer is Yes. WebDAV provides a foundation that many things are built on. As others have noted there is CalDAV and CardDAV that many use all the tim
by mfer 8y ago
The short answer is Yes.
WebDAV provides a foundation that many things are built on. As others have noted there is CalDAV and CardDAV that many use all the time.
But, it goes beyond that. WebDAV has many of the features we regularly use in object storage. Yet, object storage provides often have their own proprietary API or clone someone elses proprietary API. WebDAV is an open spec.
Because WebDAV has been around for so long, there are integration's with just so many things which make it easy to get something going out of the gate. For example, all the major OS support working with it.
Not only is it relevant for this but with all the discussions on reviving more of the open web... this is a piece worth looking at.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoOne thing I find funny is that Windows does support CalDAV and CardDAV, but only via the fact that they support iCloud. Getting my FastMail contacts into a Windows 10 device required that I create a fake iCloud account, and then edit the server address to point at FastMail and put in the correct credentials.
- stephenr 8y agoThis is an interesting take, I've talked previously about using SVN as the underlying backing store for a versioned object store (using the auto versioning feature to allow plain webdav writes), and of course plain webdav is the 'unversioned' companion service for that.