The browser has a built in bit of software called "the rendering engine" which turns HTML strings into visual widgets surprisingly quickly. A javascript applic

The browser has a built in bit of software called "the rendering engine" which turns HTML strings into visual widgets surprisingly quickly. A javascript application will still need to render to HTML. The few additional attributes necessary for an href are round off errors in the overall scheme of things. I would note that HATEOAS was simply a description of the world wide web. So, in as much as the web worked and continues to work, latency-free universe or not, it appears to be practical for building software systems.