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Replying to @wycats @mamund @mikekelly85 @TheAmazingRando
some long-lived terminology debate where the stakes of this are much higher than I would expect.
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I am not saying hypermedia is not useful (I'm the author of a hypermedia spec)
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I'm saying there's a useful distinction between hypermedia and "the media type used by browsers"
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and "web standards" are largely concerned with that media type.
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when ppl say "move the web beyond browsers", they're usually conflating things in an unhelpful way
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Sadly, the way many people prefer to use browsers these days doesn’t really qualify as “Web”
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that's the kind of sentiment I'm pushing back on. The web is not an abstract concept 1/
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it's a media type & protocol defined by web standards (produced by W3C, WHATWG, and TC39) 2/2
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I’d like to see IETF included in that list :)
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by the transitive property, it is included :)
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Replying to @wycats @mamund @mikekelly85 @TheAmazingRando
Personally, I think the browser is the best REST client we have, by a very large margin 1/2

Sep 26, 2016 · 8:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @wycats @mamund @mikekelly85 @TheAmazingRando
if we don’t strip it off (or ignore) its declarative nature and hypermedia capabilities 2/2
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I think the hypermedia nature is by far more important than declarative 1/
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