
256 ◾ Web 2.0 and Beyond: Principles and Technologies
based on the idea that the state transition takes place at the client end, i.e. in the browser.
As the browser requests new resources, in the form of representations from the server, it
moves from one state to another, hence the name REST. Essentially the process of transfer-
ring the representation acts as a transition to the next state.
14.1.5 A Read-Write Web?
ere is one more point that needs to be made before we move to consider Web 2.0 and
that is the common misconception that early Web browsers were designed to be read-only.
If we look at the early history of the Web it is clea ...