Here's the crux of the argument but it falls flat IMO: >A proper hypermedia client that receives this response does not know what a bank account is, what a bal

Here's the crux of the argument but it falls flat IMO: >A proper hypermedia client that receives this response does not know what a bank account is, what a balance is, etc. It simply knows how to render a hypermedia, HTML. No true client would know how to display json or not know how to display html. So if you have a browser plugin that pretty prints json, it's RESTful? Seems pretty specious.