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The server could be returning code chunks, not data. Could be pre-compiled objects, could be chunkojavascript. Not a new notion but it is virus-a-go-go. There are two problems: 1. How to automagically analyze the user/requestor's wants/needs. 2. How to dynamically assemble code that returns that in a way which provably satisfies the request and which can be executed by user resources. There are reasons for the web design settling around the REST minima. HATEOAS does not necessarily specify what is in the message, just that links fire messages that are always one way even if preassembled by the human clicking on the URL or the code sending the URI. Thus negotiation, MIME, etc. You could create a plethora of MIME legoTypes but that only gets you through item 2 unless the requestor send you a catalog with instructions. No free lunch. HTML is what it is because of the 80/20 rule in an open and highly dangerous environment. len From: David Lee [mailto:dlee@calldei.com] Perhaps in time it could be done. In the physical world this slowly happened as people started standardizing on things like screw sizes, chipsets, dimensional lumber .. But it has taken a long long time for this to happen. Maybe it can happen in software ?
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