What do you think about the separation of Web sites and Web services (so-called APIs)? Shouldn't the Web site be the Web service, and offer multiple representat

What do you think about the separation of Web sites and Web services (so-called APIs)? Shouldn't the Web site be the Web service, and offer multiple representations of its endpoints? As a trivial example, consider that I have a blog located at the URIL http://www.example.org/posts/ http://www.example.org/posts/ If I were to offer an API to other developers, I would have two options: 1) serve posts as `application/json` at the URI http://www.example.org/api/v1/posts http://www.example.org/api/v1/posts ; 2) serve both `text/html` and a `application/json` representations at the same URI http://www.example.org/posts http://www.example.org/posts , handling the desired mime-type and API version in the 'Accept' field of the HTTP request. Which approach is better?