[uf-rest] Microformats for <form> ?

[Mark Baker]

On 3/23/06, toydi <teohuiming.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark, I notice that form-based language in nature does not describe
> the output/response details, contrasting with several others service
> description language. I wonder what's the rational behind its design.

That's because the responses are self-descriptive.

It would be possible to do both of course - be self-descriptive *and*
provide some info up front - but the fact that it hasn't been done
before for forms (AFAIK) is probably a pretty good indicator that the
tradeoffs don't work in its favour, at least in the general case.  I
mean, the technique is commonly used in other scenarios where the
benefits are clearer, e.g. <img src="foo.jpg" type="image/jpeg">
permits a client to avoid unnecessary image downloads for formats it
doesn't recognize, albeit at the cost of the consistency since media
type information isn't authoritative and may therefore be incorrect.

Mark.
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