PragDave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient
So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the server. They invent new URLs which (for example) return a resource, but return it all wrapped up in the HTML needed to display it as a form for browser-based editing.
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