> Your logic would justify every vendor-lock-in attempt from Apple & Microsoft; it would support the idea that all the Internet's IE. Except in this case the "

> Your logic would justify every vendor-lock-in attempt from Apple & Microsoft; it would support the idea that all the Internet's IE. Except in this case the "vendors" are the makers of every popular browser and the standards body governing Web technologies. Not exactly apples-to-apples. > My expectations of how the Web should work are based on mathematical truth. REST is symbolic manipulation: it's correct in the way that only math can be. Right, a programming style. Your 'mathematical truth' is arbitrary given current web standards. The lack of it does not break interlinking, which, by your own admission, is what the Web is about. > Not HTML-first, resource-first. [...] You didn't actually address the fact that you would need to have everyone follow this style. You expect the Web to work in a way that can never be enforced; that is a broken expectation. I agree, this is the way it should be done but it's completely obvious it won't ever happen. The incentive to follow that style is no where near enough to generate any sort of defacto standard. So why evangelize?