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by yeukhon 3708 days ago
> "How will it make money"

I was trying to implement a Firefox add-on which navigates the web based on speech for my senior project (the theme was assistive technology). The major blocker with developing any tools to help navigate web page despite some effort in ARIA is that there are so many actions one cannot parse nor do without writing custom code for every single website. i.e. how can you tell where the login button is? what to click? frankly if you look at Gmail the DOM was a huge huge compressed mess (names all rewrote, without gmail.js I wouldn't be able to get Gmail working in my project). If every website exposes a standard set of APIs that can reduce the barrier by a good percentage. So think of combinging HATEOS from REST and this. Here we turn things into JSON with href allowing a client to navigate, sort of a first step making a website more "web client" compatible... funny is it?