> With enough clever use of CSS :before/:after styles to insert whatever you like on the page, you can "build" a structure around some REST "State" that was "Re

> With enough clever use of CSS :before/:after styles to insert whatever you like on the page, you can "build" a structure around some REST "State" that was "Represented" during the "Transfer" as completely unstructured markup. That's what you should be seeing as the result of letting a browser do content-negotiation directly with a RESTful API server. CSS is likely to be too limited for that; often the layout you want to have means the DOM elements need to ordered and nested in ways that don't actually make sense for your data. What I've seen actually working was XSLT stylesheets. Of course, that has its own issues with bloat, and forces XML for data transmission. (The context I saw it in was a RSS feed, a few years ago.)