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[–] Carighan 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A few things about that stuck out to me.

One interesting question to others here: Would you agree with the line under this comparison that the HTML response is self-describing?

Because frankly... I kinda don't. You need an interpreter to make sense of it, namely a web browser that knows the HTML-specification and can translate the HTML tags into meaningful semantics. But the moment I need that, I could also have a JSON interpreter in my system that uses a DSL we use internally to make sense of the JSON received, no? It's essentially the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, HTML only makes sense in the context of a hypermedia system. They explain it in the book titled so. The main point, I think, is that JSON API consuming clients are too thick (for most purposes they're trying to achieve) which slows down development, adds unnecessary complexity and causes developer fatigue.