Substitute "XML" for "JSON" and we've now come full circle.
The point about REST is that it is self-describing. And ideally should be using the same URIs as the version people clicking around in Firefox or Chrome see. The API is just the XML or JSON or whatever is flavour of the week version of the HTML version.
(Or we could use embedded data—microformats, microdata, RDFa—and get rid of that distinction.)
The point about REST is that it is self-describing. And ideally should be using the same URIs as the version people clicking around in Firefox or Chrome see. The API is just the XML or JSON or whatever is flavour of the week version of the HTML version.
(Or we could use embedded data—microformats, microdata, RDFa—and get rid of that distinction.)