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A comment on Browsers, JSON, and FormData. Parent comment

Re:Browsers, JSON, and FormData by artificialLimbs on Saturday November 12, 2022 @12:41PM (#33575247)
But why not just return hypermedia, assuming a web page?
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Re:Browsers, JSON, and FormData by Kinrany on Sunday November 13, 2022 @05:30AM (#33581766)
What do you mean? JSON can be hypermedia, you can even click hyperlinks in browsers.
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Re:Browsers, JSON, and FormData by artificialLimbs on Sunday November 13, 2022 @02:11PM (#33586303)
You can't return JSON to the browser. (I mean you can, but why lol?)

You have to interpret both up and down stream with a JSON parser (usually JS). In contrast, you can return hypertext/hypermedia directly to the browser and the user can interact with it immediately, without needing translation layers.

A primer: https://dev.to/rajasegar/html-over-the-wire-is-the-future-of...

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