[fabianholzer]

> There's plenty of ready clients and servers.

Sure, but being smart enough to implement one usually also means being smart enough to use something of the shelf. But few of the available clients are very accessible to a non-programming audience. It is basically a "natural" filter mechanism.

> What it's generally sacrificing is interactivity. That seems like it's shooting more for the early internet.

There is a very rudimentary form mechanism, resembling a bit HTTP 0.9, where you could only do get requests with query parameters, which might allow to simulate a bit of interactivity, but I with the protocol being set in stone that would forever remain a hacky simulation (if you only have a hammer...)

[doublepg23]

> But few of the available clients are very accessible to a non-programming audience. It is basically a "natural" filter mechanism.

? There’s a very nice one that runs fine on my iPad, Elaho.

[fabianholzer]

Then I stand corrected (at least for the iOs ecosystem)