Comment by magicalhippo

> Why doesn't fielding's conception make sense for non-interactive clients?

> Why does "your program" need to know anything? The whole point of hypermedia is that there isn't any "program" other than the web browser that agnostically renders whatever html it receives.

Seems like you're contradicting yourself here.

If a non-interactive client isn't supposed to know anything and just "render" whatever it gets back, how can it perform useful work on the result?

If it can't, in which sense does REST still make sense for non-interactive clients?