Background - Motivation
Most users and developers seem unaware that most Web environments give them only a subset of hypermedia functionality. It is almost impossible for any application on the Web to attain full hypermedia functionality with the interfaces today’s browsers provide.
Legacy applications are being converted to the Web in large numbers, with only minimal amount of reengineering, rarely taking advantage of hypermedia features available. Most applications only add a home page, table of contents, and navigation buttons.