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> and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API, So the benefit of hypermedia apis is predicated on something happens that almost never ev
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
> and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API,
So the benefit of hypermedia apis is predicated on something happens that almost never ever happens?
- icebraining 14y agoOn the contrary; REST, of which hypermedia is a constraint, is an architectural style derived from the observation of a very successful implementation of just that. It's called HTTP + HTML, and there are millions of services implementing it.
- steveklabnik 14y agoRSS is one prominent example of an API that many different sites implement. And it's a media type! With Links!