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Article:
 Pork Barrel Protocols
Subject: Thin client user interfaces
Date: 2001-09-14 06:35:02
From: Mark Baker

The implication that HTTP was developed to support "thin-client user-interfaces" is silly. HTTP was designed for hypertext/hypermedia transfer, where hypermedia refers to the ability to represent information (not just UIs) with a common abstraction.


See http://conveyor.com/RESTwiki


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