[uf-rest] Introducing JAHAH

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi David,

Welcome to the list, and thanks for this innovative contribution!

I do have one concern, though.   JSON sounds an awful lot like YAML  
and (especially around here) XOXO:

http://www.yaml.org/
http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005- 
September/001020.html

My preference would be to use XOXO as the transport, so that *all*  
intermediate data is legal HTML.  Would that be possible/desirable  
within the JSON metaphor? If not, why not?

Thanks,
-- Ernie P.

P.S.  Hi Bob!

On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:47 AM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:

> I came to this group by a slightly strange path -- I wanted a way  
> of providing webservices that others could load into their own  
> webpages. "traditional" AJAX, if there is such a beast, cannot do  
> this because of limitations with cross site scripting.
>
> I mulled this over for a while and discovered at Christmas time  
> that one can use the SCRIPT element to dynamically load scripts  
> from anywhere. I had also been looking at a technology called JSON  
> which has huge replacement to be a widely used net transport  
> language, as it's much easier to deal with that XML. JSON led me to  
> Bob Ippolito's JSONP, which lets me combine the SCRIPT with JSON  
> with a callback.
>
> Finally, looking back through my notes, I revisited AHAH which  
> provided an easy method for producers and consumers to use HTML in  
> "AJAX-y" applications.
>
> Combining them all together, I've produced JAHAH (pronounced the  
> German way).
>
> - it allows cross site scripting
> - if the "jsonp" parameter is not passed to the webservice, HTML  
> documents are returned
> - if it is, a simple JSON payload is returned with "html" holding  
> the HTML document; arbitrary other data can be added to the payload
>
> I've written a deeper description here [1], the official home  
> (please don't like to the temporary redirect) and I'm providing  
> code samples, JAHAH webservices for extracting HTML from files or  
> looking at RSS feeds, and all my sources. If you'd like to publicly  
> comment or link to it on a blog, please also link to [2]. My code  
> also builds on Ippolito's MochiKit.
>
> Regards, etc...
> David
>
> [1] http://www.blogmatrix.com/tools/jahah/
> [2] http://blog.davidjanes.com/mtarchives/2006_01.html#003498
>
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