[uf-rest] Introducing JAHAH

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> 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?
> 

Hi Ernie,

JSON is the real deal -- there's lots of people using and many sites are 
  already supporting it (for example [1]). Furthermore, the technique 
that JSON uses to load data -- dynamic script loading -- will only work 
if the result is valid Javascript.

Regards, etc...

[1] http://del.icio.us/help/json