- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 02:45:54 -0500
- To: "'Erik Wilde'" <dret@berkeley.edu>, "'Subbu Allamaraju'" <subbu@subbu.org>
- Cc: "'Mark Nottingham'" <mnot@mnot.net>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'Jerome Louvel'" <contact@noelios.com>, <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, <uri@w3.org>, <rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
>> Erik Wilde wrote: ...i don't think we should make that distinction of servers; on the contrary, i think the web should take every step possible into a direction where that perceived difference between "API servers" and "web servers" disappears, and where technologies that somehow create that distinction (such as HTML forms) are fixed (with reasonable transition strategies in place). Well said; I concur with this analysis and this goal completely. Adding URI Template support to HTML forms reduces the disparity between what can be done with a "website" and what must be done with an "RESTful API server" per se. There ideally should be as little technical difference between the two where the client is given the option to view it as it may. Without URI Template support HTML forms will continue to be 2nd class citizen when compared to other solutions for interacting with REST-based web services. While this hadn't been part of my original reason for request URI Template support in HTML forms it's now clear it is probably a more important justification than my original. Thanks Erik. -Mike Schinkel http://mikeschinkel.com
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