On 12/19/06, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Did Microsoft, Netscape, NCSA, Mozilla and Opera read and obey the > REST architectural guidelines before implementing their browsers
No, they implemented standards (HTTP, URIs) which enforced (for the most part) REST constraints. Considering REST wasn't documented in full until 2000, I think that's pretty good for "retroactive". > 2) Is the goal of browser based systems computer->human or computer->computer I use mine to download data that I can't look at directly; it goes to an application which processes it. Seems to me it's computer->computer->human. Mark.
