Re: Don't specific media types introduce coupling?

Ruben,

The maze example was trivial enough to not need a custom media type was
really my point (and end-state is simply no hyperlinks)

For a discussion on RESTful checkout, see [1] and [2]

[1] http://alandean.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/on-restful-basket-state.html
[2]
http://alandean.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/what-restful-basket-checkout-might-look.html

Alan

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ruben Verborgh <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Dean,
>
> > You could implement a Maze using HTML: all the client would need to know
> is how to follow hyperlinks to navigate the maze like
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure.
>
> While maybe true for a maze (although, how would the client know what end
> state it should reach?) this is not the case for other applications such as
> shopping, reserving, commenting, annotating…
>
> Best,
>
> Ruben