When I first started interacting with APIs that use JSON I wanted a JS library to automatically convert a JSON structure into, hopefully semantically correct, HTML which I could then easily style with CSS. At the time I couldn't find anything but I did write a simple piece of JS. I show an example of how I used it to style tweets on my site: http://nirmalpatel.com/json2posh/
Is there a JSON microformat for marking strings as URLs which the user agent should be able to follow? 'Cos that's all that's missing from making this sort of thing a generic REST client.
I think it's rare to see JSON HyperMedia data formats in the wild, XML seems the preferred choice due to its use of attributes for metadata annotation.
That won't work reliably with relative links. It also lacks any kind of link annotation (so, is this linked resource a "parent"? A "child"? Metadata? And so on).