So, much as I'm inclined to keep my head down given I sparked all this silliness off with a stupid joke that got out of hand, I'll say this... In addition to us

So, much as I'm inclined to keep my head down given I sparked all this silliness off with a stupid joke that got out of hand, I'll say this... In addition to using microformats, RDFa, microdata and other structured-data-in-HTML techniques, Rails does the whole content negotiaton and suffix fallback thing the right way out of the box. It astounds me that people use Rails and end up doing all the craziness with making custom APIs when Rails already does it the right way out of the box. That they then to go on and pat themselves on the back and call what they've done "RESTful" when they've made an API that's less RESTful than what comes out of the box with Rails is bizarre. In Java-land, Apache Jersey is also doing it the right way (content negotiation) and is trivially easy to setup suffix fallback.