jph00 helpfully quoted the paper's definition of hypermedia for us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538587

jph00 helpfully quoted the paper's definition of hypermedia for us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538587 > We find the "functional definition" at Definition 4.1: "A hypermedia control is an element that responds to an event trigger by issuing a type of request to a URL and placing the response at some position within the user agents viewport." You said: > Note that this definition doesn’t mention networks or protocols Neither does the given definition of hypermedia controls in the paper. So it seems that your respective definitions are perfectly compatible.