I think what made the web so successful is how an html document can be easily statically analyzed. Every action (state transfer) a web page is capable of is sta

I think what made the web so successful is how an html document can be easily statically analyzed. Every action (state transfer) a web page is capable of is statically encoded in the page itself. That is, encoded through <a>, <form>, <input>, etc tags. This is the essence of the REST architecture. An algorithm analyzing a web page doesn't have to guess at what actions are available, or run arbitrary javascript in a sandboxed environment to figure it out. I think it's bad for the web as a whole to abandon this architecture. Web developers need to take responsibility for the web as a whole, and not just violate the webs fundamental assumptions and expect others to create complex, clever solutions to a manufactured problem.