>it's so different and you've added so much work to it With web pages, it's standard and effortlessly handled by the browser. Given a form with inputs specifie

>it's so different and you've added so much work to it With web pages, it's standard and effortlessly handled by the browser. Given a form with inputs specified by the server, a client sends a request with media type application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data. There is a vast number of implementations for practically every language and platform. A machine client can send a form too, or JSON for that matter. You have it backwards, Facebook is attempting to rewrite web standards by themselves. And that is undermining the open web.