> And this is what happens all the time with the most common client (the browser). Right. Any technology that works this way is basically a "browser". You co

> And this is what happens all the time with the most common client (the browser). Right. Any technology that works this way is basically a "browser". You could create a new markup language or data format and a new user agent to consume it. But you'd be re-inventing the wheel. There may be some use case for that, as opposed to software clients consuming a well defined API, but I haven't seen it yet. The HTML web browser basically depreciated all other browser-like Internet technologies when it came out (remember Gopher) and is even replacing actual desktop software clients. There's no market for alternative hypermedia clients so why are we giving this so much thought.