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JSON is just easier to use than XML

seangw — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:05:08 +0000

Saw a post at mongolab about JSON, Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business. He’s right, JSON is popular not just because it’s “more efficient” at transferring data, but it’s easier to manipulate and use. An excerpt: There is a reason why JSON is becoming very popular as a data [...]

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Help: IE7 won’t load my JSON but IE8 will – Using a JSON Validator

seangw — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:20:16 +0000

I just ran into this issue, and found surprisingly little documentation. My JSON request wasn’t returning. I was using the jQuery “getJSON” method to send the request out. Nothing was coming back. Here’s the code, pretty basic stuff: $.getJSON(strSource, function(json){ // handle JSON here alert(json.data) } The code worked perfectly in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and [...]

Help: IE7 won’t load my JSON but IE8 will – Using a JSON Validator is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Introduction to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

seangw — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:50:45 +0000

JSON, JavaScript Object Notation, is a very useful tool for AJAX developers (and many others I’m sure). XML is fairly difficult for JavaScript to parse out. It also includes quite a bit of infrastructure overhead in certain applications. Implementation of JSON can be very easy, it is imported natively in JavaScript through the eval() [...]

Introduction to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog