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0 pointswvenable3y ago0 comments

I'm old enough to remember WML which was a mobile non-HTML hypermedia standard. I enjoyed using it but it was obvious putting an HTML browser on a phone was always going to win out.

Hyperview isn't that interesting because it's a non-standard proprietary technology that isn't really "on the web". So you either have something like that, an actual full-featured HTML browser, or have something consuming a fully defined JSON API. It doesn't feel like there's anything interesting about non-HTML user agents on the web. HTML automatically makes them all irrelevant.

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recursivedoubts3y ago

hyperview is a hypermedia that exposes native mobile features directly within the hypermedia

you wouldn't create an internet out of hyperview-apps, rather it is a way for you, a developer of a mobile application, to get the benefits of a hypermedia approach (e.g. versioning becoming much less of an issue, vs. app-store updates) while not giving up on native mobile behavior

it is open source, and I think it's one of the most innovative uses of hypermedia I've seen in the last decade:

https://github.com/instawork/hyperview

wvenableOP3y ago

It's an app builder not a hypermedia client. It's a pretty slight semantic difference but when we're talking about REST APIs for 3rd party clients then hyperview isn't really relevant to the discussion.

recursivedoubts3y ago

I don't see how you can say it isn't a hypermedia client: it is a client that interprets hypermedia, just like the canonical hypermedia client, a web browser.

It's not an internet hypermedia client like a browser, with general access to a broad network of different sites/applications, but the core mechanic satisfies REST and the format being transferred is a hypermedia.

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0 pointswvenable3y ago0 comments

I'm old enough to remember WML which was a mobile non-HTML hypermedia standard. I enjoyed using it but it was obvious putting an HTML browser on a phone was always going to win out.

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recursivedoubts3y ago

hyperview is a hypermedia that exposes native mobile features directly within the hypermedia

it is open source, and I think it's one of the most innovative uses of hypermedia I've seen in the last decade:

https://github.com/instawork/hyperview

wvenableOP3y ago

recursivedoubts3y ago

I don't see how you can say it isn't a hypermedia client: it is a client that interprets hypermedia, just like the canonical hypermedia client, a web browser.

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