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Clickability is irrelevant. An API is an APPLICATION programming interface. It's about enabling applications to interact with it.

-George

On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Jorge Williams wrote:

> 
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Bryan Taylor wrote:
> 
>> So no pdfs or excel spreadsheets without conneg.
> 
> But PDFs and excel spreadsheets are precisely why you want variants!
> 
> "Here's my usage stats for 2009...
> 
> http://usage.api.acme.com/v1.0/jorgew/2009/usage.pdf"
> 
> You mean to tell me that I can't send that out as an e-mail?  Instead I have to say
> 
> "Please run this command to see my usage stats for 2009
> 
> curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.acme.com+pdf;version=1.0"  http://usage.api.acme.com/jorgew/2009/usage"
> 
> That seems silly to me, we're missing an important feature, the ability to click.
> 
> -jOrGe W.
> 
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