yet to be convinced that backbone.js (and the like) not the culmination of years of misunderstanding REST.
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@steveklabnik @mamund @seantallen @pkeane If you "do it right", my guess is you'll ultimately end up reimplementing the browser
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@stilkov I don’t really even now where to start with this one, but wow. @steveklabnik
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@wycats @steveklabnik Of course I do not mean this literally. A follow-up in more than 140 characters might be useful.
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@stilkov I’m just baffled by the “only the browser is *real REST* crowd” @steveklabnik
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@wycats @steveklabnik I don't consider myself part of that crowd, but yes, I've found the browser to be a very good REST client role model

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@stilkov It sounds like you are philosophically opposed to other, more special-purpose REST clients. Not REST, opinion. @steveklabnik
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@wycats @steveklabnik Not in general, no; I just have a hard time justifying a specific one where I consider the generic one "good enough"
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@stilkov application/vnd.myapp is a perfectly valid media type if you want to be particularly pedantic. @steveklabnik
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@wycats @steveklabnik No disagreement here.
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