Re: the necessity of describing responses in-band

Hi John,

> For HTML would also be fair to say that much of the metadata is put in the <head> element of the message body.

…but all of the metadata a user is supposed to see, wil stil make it to they <body>.
I rarely see really interesting metadata (only) in <head>.

> Speaking of HTML I'm pretty interested in these new HTML Imports and see these as a potentially neat way put pull out the surrounding context (headers, footers, navigation) into separate resources

+1

> Makes sense to me to apply similar approach to an API.
> Moreover should be easy to do with RDF.

Indeed! We could describe a hypermedia control
by a dereferenceable IRI instead of repeating it on every resource.

But at the moment, I still very much support that repetition,
just like we do in HTML.

> p.s. in your first Turtle snippet of the post, why not go the whole hog and make the item URIs into blank nodes ;-)

Hah, good suggestion. I might actually just do that!

Thanks,

Ruben

Received on Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:02:41 UTC