For those referring to "REST APIs" as part of single-page apps: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven http://roy.gbiv.com/untan

For those referring to "REST APIs" as part of single-page apps: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte... Point being, if your AJAX app is built in the typical fashion, it is very unlikely to be at all RESTful itself. It is however enjoying the many benefits of being built on top of a RESTful protocol (HTML), like running in any standard web browser without any pre-deployed client software.