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Your comment is being misunderstood, maybe because of the way you phrased it, but you have a point: a generic client might be able to traverse links of arbitrar
by spankalee 3y ago
Your comment is being misunderstood, maybe because of the way you phrased it, but you have a point: a generic client might be able to traverse links of arbitrary data, but it won't know what they mean or why to traverse the links.
Besides a structured data browser for humans, or some kind of transforming proxy, it's hard to see what use cases this is clearly and practically better for.
- yellowapple 3y agoMy impression is that the lack of knowledge of what/why is kinda the point: it's the server's job to make the intent clear (via hypermedia), and it's the client's job to faithfully represent that intent to the user. The use-case is therefore related to that of the "semantic web": provide as much expressivity for that intent as possible, and make it as easy as possible for the client to faithfully convey it.