Comment on Getting hyper about hypermedia APIsparentComments−MatthewPhillips13y> and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API,So the benefit of hypermedia apis is predicated on something happens that almost never ever happens?−icebraining13yOn the contrary; REST, of which hypermedia is a constraint, is an architectural style derived from the observation of a very successful implementation of just that.It's called HTTP + HTML, and there are millions of services implementing it.−steveklabnik13yRSS is one prominent example of an API that many different sites implement.And it's a media type! With Links!
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> and tomorrow someone creates Blinkr, which implements the same API,
So the benefit of hypermedia apis is predicated on something happens that almost never ever happens?
On the contrary; REST, of which hypermedia is a constraint, is an architectural style derived from the observation of a very successful implementation of just that.
It's called HTTP + HTML, and there are millions of services implementing it.
RSS is one prominent example of an API that many different sites implement.
And it's a media type! With Links!