Web Things, by Mark Baker

Benjamin’s been adding some good stuff to RESTwiki. Check it out.

YOW, WoW

Paraphrasing; “they’re taking an old protocol or message exchange pattern and basically adding angle brackets”. 8-O

“So who really cares that SOAP is able to be bound to MQ or IIOP or SMTP, today?”

Oh my.

“It’s time for the Web browser community to stop using up its resources attacking specifications that we’re not interested in implementing”

“[…] the moment you create a WSDL document, you’ve created a proprietary protocol”

“Why are we using a data format where this is possible at all?” Because it was designed from an authoring POV, not a network POV. It should have been designed for both, of course.

CRUD has no equivalent to POST. It’s a different abstraction. Let’s stop trying to shoe-horn the Web into the shape of a database please.

Attention would-be REST evangelists; thanks for all your help, but conflating REST and the Web is only going to confuse a lot of folks.

“The new API is pretty much the same, except that it’s now accessible via https rather than http and it versioned as well”. Versioned?! Oh joy. Remember kids, these are *Web* APIs, and on the Web, cool URIs don’t change.

(Via Rob Sayre ) “The way to maximise compatibility in practice is to be compatible with HTML”. Nicely said, and as we’ve learned with microformats, applies to more than just visual languages like SVG.

“That should make a good recipe for, what we think, is going to be an interesting and much needed book for a world where the Web is the application/integration platform”.

My old client beefs up their compound-document-supporting user agent.

Just in time for my trip to London on Saturday. Joy!