Hi Kingsley, >> In my talks, I say that enabling is stronger than affording.
> Do you have a link to the talk in question? Well, it's something I always mention verbally, so "enabling" will not be on the slides. Nevertheless, here's a presentation on it for a wide audience: http://www.slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/the-web-a-hypermedia-story On slides 41–46, I explain Fielding's definition of hypermedia, with slides 44–46 specifically focusing on "affordance". And here are slides for my research project "Distributed Affordance" (what's in a name), which explains the topic in a similar way on slides 7–18: http://www.slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/distributed-affordance-21175728 Affordance is in my opinion the crucial word that defines the REST architectural style, as its loose conversational coupling is only possible because representations _afford_ subsequent actions; RPC-style interactions just _enable_ those actions. Best, Ruben
