[jroper]

In some cases, client code could be written so that new actions can be discovered and utilised without any changes to the client code. There have been many cases when I've written code that renders things, and I've reused that code to render multiple different things. Eg I might have a page that lists blog posts, and another page that lists comments on a blog post. Some of those things can be deleted, some of them can't, but the code to delete is there for both of them, it's just that on the ones that can't, the delete button is hidden. Using HATEOUS, if the server did start supporting deleting something, that could automatically detect that, and automatically support that new feature that the server now supports.