What is the purpose of the implicit grant authorization type in OAuth 2?

Question

I don\'t know if I just have some kind of blind spot or what, but I\'ve read the OAuth 2 spec many times over and perused the mailing list archives, and I have yet to find a

Answer 1

I think Will Cain answered this when he said " There is no benefit to client credentials for the same reason. (Any client can attempt to use this flow.)" Also consider that the redirect_uri for implicit flow maybe "localhost"--no callback is made from the Authorization Server for the implicit flow. As there is no way to pre-trust the client, the user would have to approve the release of user claims.