Re: Use cases

On 31.12.2010 14:17, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de>  wrote:
>> What's essential is that payloads are self-describing, and media types that
>> support compound information (for instance, through XML namespaces), are
>> completely OK.
>
> We're not talking about random media types, but text/html
> specifically. Hypermedia formats have a special place within REST
> architecture:
>
> http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
>
> Sprinkingly some namespaces around does not magically produce a
> document that software can turn into a human-friendly hypermedia
> interface.
> ...

It may or may not.

How is this in any way different from using Microdata, RDFa, script 
elements or data-* attributes, though? After all, it's just a different 
way of embedding the information.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Saturday, 1 January 2011 14:41:23 UTC