[microformats-discuss] REST-discuss list, naming

[Robert Bachmann]

Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
> 
>> How about RAX:
>>
>> * RESTful
>> * API
>> * with XHTML
> 
> 
> My main concern with "X" in an acronym is that it ties us too closely 
> to XML (a la AJAX et al).  Even though we nominally use XHTML, the 
> conceptual breakthrough is using semantic HTML as a way to do REST.
> 
> Hmmm. "SH" is promising...
> 
> SHAR:
> * Semantic
> * HTML
> * APIs for
> * REST
> 
SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.


Robert
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