Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative -- WEB400

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Check the book _Coders at Work_ by Peter Seibel. There's a chapter
interviewing Douglas Crockford, inventor of JSON, created for the very
reasons you mention. Douglas is a proponent of simple(r) solutions.

"Crockford: [...] Like when XML was proposed as a data-interchange format,
my first impression of that was, 'My god, this is way, way, way too
complicated. We don't need all of this stuff just to move data back and
forth.' And so I proposed another way to do it, and it won. JSON is now the
preferred way of doing data transfer in Ajax applications and it's winning
in a whole lot of other applications. And it's just really simple." pp. 125

--Loyd

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

JSON is more quickly parsed/composed on the client than XML because of it's
nativeness to Javascript. Really, in the end, JSON is a great alternative
to XML for more than just communicating with a browser because of it's
simplicity and yet still maintaining the main things you need in XML (i.e.
tagged data, groups of data, repeating data, basic data types).

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