Why Insist on a Word

A central concept to HTML, and hypertext theory more generally, is something called Representational State Transfer, a.k.a. REST. Over at htmx, a lot of the writing we do is based on REST theory. REST is a widely misunderstood term , and if you point that out to people, you will be told, repeatedly and sometimes quite irately: who cares? REST has a new meaning now—use words the way people…